The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive) - Softcover

De Gourmont, Remy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0947757813 ISBN 13: 9780947757816

Publisher: Atlas Pr, 1995

Synopsis

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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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlas Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0947757813
• ISBN 13: 9780947757816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304