
Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse
Perversity, Despair and Collapse
Kirsten Lodge(Editor)
Dedalus Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 18. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-1-903517-60-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Cruelty, corruption, sensuality, desperation and death: the sensationalism and morbid pessimism that characterized French decadence in the late nineteenth century quickly attracted converts throughout Europe, including Russia. Here are the horrifying, dramatic and erotic short stories and poetry, most of which have never before been translated into English, by the most decadent Russian writers. These explore the depths of the unconscious, as their characters experience sadism, masochism, rape, murder, suicide, and, in a story by Gippius, even passionate love for the dead. * describes the spread of madnessand the collapse of advanced, but decadent, civilizations that indulge in refined pleasures * Andreyev portrays the collapse of all moral values on a personal level in his famous story The Abyss Femmes fatales lure men to destruction, but the most seductive enchantress in the anthology is death itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambs
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-903517-60-4 (9781903517604)
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Both main author and main translator for this book of dark Russian poetry, Kirsten Lodge is passionate for the sweet darkness of Russian literature.