The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing
An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing
by Andrew Mangravite, Rémy de Gourmont, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jean Moréas, Léon Bloy, André Gide, Paul Claudel, Francis Jammes, Laurent Tailhade, Pierre Quillard, Rachilde, Félix Vallotton, Alfred Vallette, Félix Fénéon, Camille Mauclair, Georges Eekhoud, Maurice Maeterlinck, Tristan Corbière, Jules Laforgue, Arthur Rimbaud, Adolphe Retté, Robert de Montesquiou, Iain White, Ephraïm Mikhaël, Stuart Merrill, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, Albert Samain, Jehan Rictus, Hugues Rebell, Jean Lorrain, Comte de Lautréamont, Éduard Dujardin, Stanley Chapman, Gustave Kahn, Paul Verlaine, G-Albert Aurier, Stéphane Mallarmé, Henri de Régnier, Jules Renard, Saint-Pol-Roux, Francis Poictevin, Paul Fort, Ernest Hello, Terry Hale, Emile Verhaeren, John Harman, Alastair Brotchie, Malcolm Green, Marcel Schwob
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About this book
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.
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