The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence
The Black Feast
Published on 9. June 2021
288 pages
978-1-912868-70-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Decadent Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature. The Decadents, convinced that civilisation 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.
J.-K. Huysmans described Decadence as a 'black feast' and The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence offers a veritable banquet, with offerings from the major practitioners in France and England. It completes Brian Stableford seminal two-volume study of the decadent movement.
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Brian Stableford is one of Britain's leading writers of science fiction and fantasy. He is the editor of The Dedalus Book of Decadence, The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence, The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy and Tales of the Wandering Jew. He has translated for Dedalus, under the pseudonym of Francis Amery, Monsieur de Phocas by Jean Lorrain and The Angels of Perversity by Remy de Gourmont.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Series Page
- The Editor
- Contents
- Introduction: The Philosophy of Decadence
- 1. "An Invitation to the Voyage"
- 2. The Disciple
- 3. Des Esseintes' Dream (from À Rebours)
- 4. Faustine
- 5. Verses from The Songs of Maldoror
- 6. Viol D'Amor
- 7. Péhor
- 8. Roxana Runs Lunatick
- 9. Passages from A Season in Hell
- 10. The Virgin of the Seven Daggers
- 11. The Future Phenomenon
- 12. The Teacher of Wisdom
- 13. Funeral Oration
- 14. Amor Profanus
- 15. The Portals of Opium
- 16. The Sphinx
- 17. Saint Satyr
- 18. Don Juan Declaims
- 19. Occult Memories
- 20. The Testament of A Vivisector
- 21. Crowd Scene
- 22. Berenice
- 23. The Cord
- 24. Witch In-Grain
- 25. Autumnal Lament
- 26. Duke Virgil
- 27. The Shutter
- 28. The Doer of Good
- 29. The Vanquished Shadow
- 30. The Outcast Spirit
- 31. To Each His Chimera
- 32. The Visit
- 33. Beatrice
- 34. Narcissus
- 35. A Heroic Death
- 36. An Original Revenge
- 37. A Posthumous Protest
- 38. The Conqueror Worm
- 39. The Temptations
- 40. A Wine of Wizardry
- Notes on the Contributors
