Masks in the Tapestry

Lorrain, Jean

ISBN 10: 194381337X / ISBN 13: 9781943813377

Published by Snuggly Books, London, 2017

About this Item

8vo, 113 pp., Translated by Brian Stableford.

Seller Inventory # 112105

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Masks in the Tapestry
• Publisher: Snuggly Books, London
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194381337X
• ISBN 13: 9781943813377
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: stories of princes and princesses; mock-fairytales that seem to pervert the innocence of their settings with a triumphant immorality, plunging the reader into an atmosphere of voluptuousness and sensuality.

"Whoever has not believed as a child," wrote the author, "will not dream as a young man; it is necessary to think, on the threshold of life, of weaving beautiful tapestries of dreams in order to decorate our abode as winter approaches; and beautiful dreams, even when faded, make the sumptuous tapestries of December."