The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse - Couverture souple

 
9781903517604: The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse
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ISBN 10 : 1903517605 ISBN 13 : 9781903517604
Editeur : Dedalus Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

The sensationalism and morbid pessimism that characterized French decadence in the late nineteenth century quickly attracted converts throughout Europe, including Russia. The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse brings together horrifying, dramatic and erotic short stories and poetry, most of which have never before been translated into English, by the most decadent Russian writers. It includes scandalous writings by the well-known authors Valery Briusov, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub and Zinaida Gippius and acquaints English-speaking readers with the forgotten writer Aleksandr Kondratiev. These writers explore the darkest 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.

Briusov, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian decadent movement, describes
revolution or the spread of madness leading to the collapse of highly advanced but
decadent civilizations that indulge in refined pleasures and ritualized orgies as they
await the final hour. Andreyev portrays the collapse of all moral values on a personal level in his famous story "The Abyss," which caused an uproar when it
was first published. Femmes fatales lure men to destruction, but the most seductive enchantress in the anthology is death itself, particularly in the work of Sologub, who is Russia's most decadent writer of all.

This collection will certainly provide a reprieve from everyday life, with page after page of cruelty, corruption, sensuality, desperation and death.

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À propos des auteurs

Both main author and main translator for this book of dark Russian poetry, Kirsten Lodge is passionate for the sweet darkness of Russian literature.

Translator

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Éditeur
Dedalus Ltd
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1903517605
ISBN 13 
9781903517604
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
322
Éditeur
Lodge Kirsten
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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