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Villiers De L'Isle-Adam, Auguste

Dolmen Press; [distributed by Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pa

Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis, the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned as one of the foundation-stones of Decadent prose fiction, redolent with echoes of Byron and Poe, reconfigured in the Baudelairean manner, and flamboyant with Gautieresque elements, this book is a tour de force of extravagant implication and esthetic dexterity: a work of peculiar genius.
In its vaulting ambitions, its quirky mannerisms, its philosophical posturing and its lush descriptions, Isis is certainly a tale given to excess, but that excess is the essence of the endeavor, the wand of its enchantment.

Isis

Literature & Fiction

Stableford,Brian

World Literature

Snuggly Books

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889), though best known for his contes cruels and his proto science fiction novel L'Ève future, began his career with two volumes of verse, Deux essais de poésie (1858) and Premières poésies (1859), the contents of which are here presented in their entirety as Complete Early Poetry, translated for the first time into English, by Richard Robinson. Under the spell of Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle, the young author produced these early exemplars of Decadent verse, which are filled with exoticism, nocturnal fantasies, and mystery. Complete Early Poetry offers further insight into one of the most interesting and eccentric of the French Symbolists.

Complete Early Poetry

Poetry

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Eve Future (Folio (Gallimard)) (French Edition)

VILLI, De

Genre Fiction

Gallimard Education

Perteneciente a la antigua nobleza, arruinada tras la Revolución Francesa, Philippe-Auguste, conde de VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM (1838-1889), nació en Bretaña, donde creció entre paisajes legendarios de ensoñación y fantasía. Idealista, genial y extravagante, enemigo acérrimo de la falta de criterio artístico de la sociedad burguesa de su tiempo, se relacionó con maestros como Baudelaire, Flaubert y Wagner, y entabló amistad con figuras literarias como Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Verlaine, Huysmans y su incondicional Mallarmé. Precursor del Simbolismo, intentó en el teatro una renovación escénica integral, aunque la fama y el reconocimiento los obtuvo en 1883 con la publicación de sus célebres Cuentos crueles, en los que confluyen magistralmente la poeticidad y el sarcasmo, el idealismo y la crueldad, características inconfundibles de su creación literaria. VERA Y OTROS CUENTOS CRUELES es la selección que de esta obra ha realizado Luis Alberto de Cuenca, responsable asimismo de su excelente traducción española y de las notas que la acompañan. El prólogo de Alicia Mariño sirve de inmejorable introducción al «cuento cruel» que fue la propia vida de Villiers y a los relatos que contiene el volumen.

Vera y otros cuentos crueles (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Alianza Editorial

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