French Decadent Tales
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ISBN:
9780199569274
Publication date:
25/09/2013
Paperback
288 pages
196x129mm
Price: 660.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199569274
Publication date:
25/09/2013
Paperback
288 pages
Part of Oxford World's Classics
Stephen Romer
A unique anthology of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siècle, newly translated by ephen Romer.,Includes well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Léon Bloy, Jean Richepin, and the Belgian Georges Rodenbach, and stories that fascinate for their amorality, peverseness, cruelty, and imaginative fantasy.,Concentrates on stories set in the contemporary Paris of the 1880s and 1890s, giving the anthology coherence and an historical focus. Superb translations by Romer do full justice to the stylish wit and black humour of the originals.,Engaging introduction provides a full context for the stories, discussing the principal literary, philosophical, scientific, and political trends of the time, which fed into their authors' loathing of the modern world, and the discovery of the Unconscious.,Biographical notes on the authors, and explanatory notes to elucidate cultural references.,Chronology of publications and main events of the period.
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Stephen Romer
Description
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.'
A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. While 'Decadence' was a European movement, its epicentre was the French capital. On the eve of Freud's early discoveries, writers such as Gourmont, Lorrain, Maupassant, Mirbeau, Richepin, Schwob, and Villiers engaged in a species of wild analysis of their own, perfecting the art of short fiction as they did so.
Death and Eros haunt these pages, and a polymorphous perversity by turns hilarious and horrifying. Their stories teem with addicts, maniacs, and murderers as they strive to outdo each other.
This newly translated selection brings together the very best writing of the period, from lesser known figures as well as famous names. Provocative and unsettling, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales continue to cast a cold eye on the modern world.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
About the author/editor
Stephen Romer, MaÃtre de Conférences, Tours University
Stephen Romer is a specialist of French and British Modernism. He has published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Yellow Studio (Carcanet/Oxford Poets, 2008) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prizze. He has edited and co-translated Twentieth-Century French Poems (Faber, 2002), and has served as judge for the Tower poetry prize, the Popescu Prize for European Translation, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He reviews regularly for the Guardian and the TLS.
Stephen Romer
Table of contents
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (1808-89)
Don Juan's Crowning Love Affair
LÉON BLOY (1846-1917)
A Dentist Terribly Punished
The Last Bake
The Lucky Sixpence
GUSTAVE GEFFROY (1855-1926)
The Statue
RÉMY DE GOURMONT (1858-1915)
Danaette
Don Juan's Secret
The Faun
On the Threshold
JULES LAFORGUE (1860-87)
Perseus and Andromeda
JEAN LORRAIN (1895-1906)
An Unidentified Crime
The Man with the Bracelet
The Student's Tale
The Man Who Loved Consumptives
PIERRE LOUYS (1870-1925)
A Case without Precedent
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93)
At the Death-Bed
The Night
A Walk
The Tresses
CATULLE MENDÈS (1841-1909)
What the Shadow Demands
GUSTAVE MIRBEAU (1848-1927)
The Bath
The First Emotion
The Little Summer-House
On a Cure
JEAN RICHEPIN (1849-1926)
Constant Guignard
Deshoulières
Pft! Pft!
GEORGE RODENBACH (1855-98)
The Time
MARCEL SCHWOB (1867-1905)
The Brothel
The Sans-Gueule
52 and 53 Orfila
Lucretius, Poet
Paolo Uccello, Painter
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM (1838-89)
Sentimentalism
The Presentiment
The Desire to be a Man
Stephen Romer
Description
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.'
A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. While 'Decadence' was a European movement, its epicentre was the French capital. On the eve of Freud's early discoveries, writers such as Gourmont, Lorrain, Maupassant, Mirbeau, Richepin, Schwob, and Villiers engaged in a species of wild analysis of their own, perfecting the art of short fiction as they did so.
Death and Eros haunt these pages, and a polymorphous perversity by turns hilarious and horrifying. Their stories teem with addicts, maniacs, and murderers as they strive to outdo each other.
This newly translated selection brings together the very best writing of the period, from lesser known figures as well as famous names. Provocative and unsettling, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales continue to cast a cold eye on the modern world.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
About the author/editor
Stephen Romer, MaÃtre de Conférences, Tours University
Stephen Romer is a specialist of French and British Modernism. He has published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Yellow Studio (Carcanet/Oxford Poets, 2008) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prizze. He has edited and co-translated Twentieth-Century French Poems (Faber, 2002), and has served as judge for the Tower poetry prize, the Popescu Prize for European Translation, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He reviews regularly for the Guardian and the TLS.
Table of contents
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (1808-89)
Don Juan's Crowning Love Affair
LÉON BLOY (1846-1917)
A Dentist Terribly Punished
The Last Bake
The Lucky Sixpence
GUSTAVE GEFFROY (1855-1926)
The Statue
RÉMY DE GOURMONT (1858-1915)
Danaette
Don Juan's Secret
The Faun
On the Threshold
JULES LAFORGUE (1860-87)
Perseus and Andromeda
JEAN LORRAIN (1895-1906)
An Unidentified Crime
The Man with the Bracelet
The Student's Tale
The Man Who Loved Consumptives
PIERRE LOUYS (1870-1925)
A Case without Precedent
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93)
At the Death-Bed
The Night
A Walk
The Tresses
CATULLE MENDÈS (1841-1909)
What the Shadow Demands
GUSTAVE MIRBEAU (1848-1927)
The Bath
The First Emotion
The Little Summer-House
On a Cure
JEAN RICHEPIN (1849-1926)
Constant Guignard
Deshoulières
Pft! Pft!
GEORGE RODENBACH (1855-98)
The Time
MARCEL SCHWOB (1867-1905)
The Brothel
The Sans-Gueule
52 and 53 Orfila
Lucretius, Poet
Paolo Uccello, Painter
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM (1838-89)
Sentimentalism
The Presentiment
The Desire to be a Man
Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett
Marquis de Sade, David Coward
Herman Melville, Tony Tanner
Frances Burney, Vivien Jones, Edward A. Bloom
Charles Dickens, Andrew Sanders
Thomas Hardy, Pamela Dalziel, Dale Kramer
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw
Charles Dickens, Kathleen Tillotson, Stephen Gill
Jane Austen, Jane Stabler, James Kinsley
William Godwin, Pamela Clemit
