Isis Paperback / softback
by Auguste Villiers De L'Isle Adam, Brian Stableford
Paperback / softback
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Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis, the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned as one of the foundation-stones of Decadent prose fiction, redolent with echoes of Byron and Poe, reconfigured in the Baudelairean manner, and flamboyant with Gautieresque elements, this book is a tour de force of extravagant implication and esthetic dexterity: a work of peculiar genius.
In its vaulting ambitions, its quirky mannerisms, its philosophical posturing and its lush descriptions, Isis is certainly a tale given to excess, but that excess is the essence of the endeavor, the wand of its enchantment.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Snuggly Books
- Publication Date:12/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781645250043
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages
- Publisher:Snuggly Books
- Publication Date:12/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781645250043