French decadent tales / translated with an introduction and notes by Stephen Romer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romer, Stephen, 1957-

Series:

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, French--Translations into English.

Short stories, French.

French fiction--19th century.

French fiction.

Decadence (Literary movement)--France.

Decadence (Literary movement).

France.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

Paris (France).

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

l, 231 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

"This newly translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siecle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Hilarious and horrifying, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales cast a cold eye on the modern world"--back cover.

Contents:

Don Juan's crowning love-affair / Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

The presentiment ; The desire to be a man ; Sentimentalism / Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

What the shadow demands / Catulle Mendès

A dentist terribly punished ; The last bake ; The lucky sixpence / Léon Bloy

On a cure ; The bath ; The first emotion ; The little summer-house / Octave Mirbeau

Constant Guignard ; Deshoulières ; Pft! Pft! / Jean Richepin

At the death-bed ; A walk ; The tresses ; Night / Guy De Maupassant

The statue / Gustave Geffroy

An unsolved crime ; The student's tale ; The man with the bracelet ; The man who loved consumptives / Jean Lorrain

The time / Georges Rodenbach

Danaette ; The faun ; Don Juan's secret ; On the threshold / Remy De Gourmont

Perseus and Andromeda / Jules Laforgue

The brothel ; The sans-gueule ; 52 and 53 Orfila ; Lucretius, poet ; Paolo Uccello, painter / Marcel Schwob

A case without precedent / Pierre Louÿs.

ISBN:

9780199569274

0199569274

OCLC:

846662785