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The Book of Masks

Literature & Fiction

de, Gourmont Remy

History & Criticism

Franklin Classics

A Night in the Luxembourg (1919)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Natural Philosophy of Love

Quartet Books

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Liveright Publishing Corp.

19th c erotic and decadent short story collection.

ANGELS OF PERVERSITY

Arts & Photography

Dedalus Limited

The selection is based on a series of essays on contemporary writers published as The Book of Masks by the foremost critic and author of the period: Remy de Gourmont. (The "masks" are remarkable portrait drawings by Felix Vallotton.) De Gourmont's essays brilliantly evoke the pre-occupations of each author, their genius and shortcomings, while simultaneously describing, and contributing to, the literary theories of the movement. His introduction provides one of the most important overviews of Symbolism and describes its gradual subsidence into its "dark side": decadence. De Gourmont's book consisted solely of essays, but the editor of this anthology has added characteristic texts from each writer to accompany them. Nearly fifty are included, ranging from the extraordinary obscure and unjustly forgotten to the literary giants of the day. Here are works by Gide, Mallarme and Verlaine which have never before appeared in English.

The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive)

Atlas Pr

"What is that cloud, called Sixtine, which comes to trouble my royal indifference and to conceal my sun—death? I do not want to go to sleep in the shadow of her beauty...." Hubert Entragues, aesthete and litterateur, conceives a passion for the ethereal Sixtine in this "cerebral novel" of 1890. The romance remains largely imaginary, a passion localized in the skull of the intellectual Entragues. Alone with his thoughts and his literature, the narrator's baroque reflections careen from lyrical exaltation to sullen despondency according to the inscrutable actions of his elusive inamorata. In his refined loneliness, his lucid and sensual daydreams develop into a story within the story, mirroring and embellishing the inner experience of their author. Very Woman is a masterpiece of the symbolist movement of fin de siecle literature. A brilliant stylist, Gourmont's luxurious, poetic prose is full of erudition, irony, and eroticism, creating an atmosphere all its own. "A book that meant a lot to me is Sixtine, Remy de Gourmont." —Blaise Cendrars

Very Woman (Sixtine): A Cerebral Novel

Antipodes Press

The Book of Masks (1921)

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Le Latin Mystique: Les Poètes de l'antiphonaire et la Symbolique au Moyen âge

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