Masks in the Tapestry by Jean Lorrain
Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: stories of princes and princesses; mock-fairytales that seem to pervert the innocence of their settings with a triumphant immorality, plunging the reader into an atmosphere of voluptuousness and sensuality.
Whoever has not believed as a child, wrote the author, will not dream as a young man; it is necessary to think, on the threshold of life, of weaving beautiful tapestries of dreams in order to decorate our abode as winter approaches; and beautiful dreams, even when faded, make the sumptuous tapestries of December.
Lorrain, Jean: - Jean Lorrain, born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a novelist, critic, and dramatist, and one of the most conspicuously Decadent figures of fin-de-siü¾Ž†”¼cle France. Masks and disguises are recurring themes in his work, as is Parisian low life, satanism, ether, homosexuality, and the aristocracy. In 1897, he wrote Monsieur de Bougrelon, and shortly after, Lorrain left Paris to live in Nice. His stay at the Riviera began an intense period of creativity. In 1901, he wrote his best-known work, Monsieur de Phocas, which he followed a year later with his fantastical aristocrat saga, Le Vice errant. His health declined due to syphilis and his abuse of drugs, and he died on June 30, 1906, of peritonitis, at the age of fifty-one. It was rumored that when Lorrain's grave was opened in 1986, the body of Sodom's ambassador to Paris, as biographer Philippe Jullian called him, still smelled of ether.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781943813377 |
| ISBN 10 | 194381337X |
| Title | Masks in the Tapestry |
| Author | Jean Lorrain |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Snuggly Books |
| Year published | 2017-07-24 |
| Number of pages | 116 |
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