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Nightmares of an Ether-drinker

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Description:Translated and with an Introduction by Brian Stapleford. A collection of ether-inspired nightmares & cruel tales by this leading figure in the French Decadent Movement of the 1880s & 90s. Corseted, made up, perfumed, with flowery jacket pockets, Lorrain arrives at the Paris 1900 celebrations in a halo of ether, carrying his reputation as a "dandy of the mire". A perfect figure of end-of-the-century Paris, the most eccentric, intriguing and endearing. Lorrain conceives his life and his appearance as a work of art and pure provocation. Drugged, disguised, transvestite, inverted, frequenting the salons of Paris like the most violent bastards of the fortifications, the debauchee haunts the Parisian night. But Jean Lorrain deserves better than this sulphurous and scandalous image. He reveals himself to be a writer with a personal and subtle language, with sometimes dazzling metaphors, with an ironic, caustic and poisonous spirit. He was a poet, columnist, novelist and playwright alike, and offers a colorful, incisive, often funny, rarely tepid, never silly style, punctuated with joyful misanthropic bitterness. Lorrain, like other decadents, Bloy, Huysmans, Tinan, Loti or Schwob, continues to fascinate, by his life as by his work. Within texts that are still dispersed, this collection traces a major autobiographical vein, mixing the spirit of society chronicle and self-description. The self-portrait of an ether drinker from Paris during the Belle Époque is sketched here.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nightmares of an Ether-drinker. To get started finding Nightmares of an Ether-drinker, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 247

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Release: 2002

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Description: Translated and with an Introduction by Brian Stapleford. A collection of ether-inspired nightmares & cruel tales by this leading figure in the French Decadent Movement of the 1880s & 90s. Corseted, made up, perfumed, with flowery jacket pockets, Lorrain arrives at the Paris 1900 celebrations in a halo of ether, carrying his reputation as a "dandy of the mire". A perfect figure of end-of-the-century Paris, the most eccentric, intriguing and endearing. Lorrain conceives his life and his appearance as a work of art and pure provocation. Drugged, disguised, transvestite, inverted, frequenting the salons of Paris like the most violent bastards of the fortifications, the debauchee haunts the Parisian night. But Jean Lorrain deserves better than this sulphurous and scandalous image. He reveals himself to be a writer with a personal and subtle language, with sometimes dazzling metaphors, with an ironic, caustic and poisonous spirit. He was a poet, columnist, novelist and playwright alike, and offers a colorful, incisive, often funny, rarely tepid, never silly style, punctuated with joyful misanthropic bitterness. Lorrain, like other decadents, Bloy, Huysmans, Tinan, Loti or Schwob, continues to fascinate, by his life as by his work. Within texts that are still dispersed, this collection traces a major autobiographical vein, mixing the spirit of society chronicle and self-description. The self-portrait of an ether drinker from Paris during the Belle Époque is sketched here.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nightmares of an Ether-drinker. To get started finding Nightmares of an Ether-drinker, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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