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The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins
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The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins
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The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe’s most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination.
looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor." Andrew St George in