The decadent reader

Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

by Asti Hustvedt, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Guy de Maupassant, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Catulle Mendès, Rachilde, Jean Moréas, Octave Mirbeau, Joséphin Péladan, Rémy de Gourmont, Peter Brooks, Janet Beizer, Charles Bernheimer, Françoise Meltzer, Phillipe Lejeune, Barbara Spackman, Jennifer Birkett, Emily Apter