Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Adams, Jad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845116844 ISBN 13: 9781845116842

Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2008

Synopsis

Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice for Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from sterility to madness, to French defeats in World War I. The campaign against *the devil in a bottle* resulted in its ban throughout most of Europe. Its reputation for toxicity eventually extinguished the fin-de-siècle's infatuation with absinthe, but not before it had influenced generations of artists on both sides of the channel. This book is a biography of *the green fairy*: from its place in the lives of writers and artists who were inspired--and ruined--by it, to its more recent rediscovery by Ernest Hemingway and today’s would-be sophisticates.

About this title

Book Description:

Oddly fascinating look at how the "green fairy" affected the Impressionists and Modernists and literati of the era.

From the Publisher:

Copublished with I.B. Tauris, London

Wisconsin edition for sale only in the United States, its territories and dependencies, Canada, and the Philippines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845116844
• ISBN 13: 9781845116842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304