Decadence and Symbolism

Collecting together eighty-six different pieces of prose from sixty-one authors, Decadence and Sybmolism: A Showcase Anthology, is the most broad-ranging anthology of its kind. Surveying the movements from their beginnings onward, the volume brings together texts from well-known exponents such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as numerous lesser-known authors, many of whose work is being made available in English for the first time.

Editor and translator Brian Stableford provides an in-depth introductory essay, as well as brief biographies of the various personalities presented.

Complete list of authors included:

Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Theophile Gautier
Xavier Forneret
Theodore de Banville
Paul Verlaine
X. B. Saintine
Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam
Ernest Hello
Catulle Mendes
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Charles Cros
Frederic Champsaur
Stephane Mallarme
Jean Moreas
Gustave Kahn
Jules Laforgue
Charles Morice
G. Albert Aurier
Paul Adam
Francis Poictevin
Remy de Gourmont
Andre-Ferdinand Herold
Adolphe Rette
Bernard Lazare
Jean Lorrain
Pierre Louys
Camille Mauclair
Stuart Merrill
Ephraim Mikhael
Henri de Regnier
Jules Renard
Saint-Pol-Roux
Gabriel de Lautrec
Pierre Quilllard
Marcel Schwob
Frederic Boutet
Pierre Veber
Tristan Bernard
Judith Gautier
Hugues Rebell
Gaston Danville
May Armand Blanc
Renee Vivien
Alfred Jarry
Francis Jammes
J. H. Rosny aine
Henri Austruy
Leon Bloy
Jean Richepin
Louis Codet
Leon Daudet
Claude Cebel
Jane de La Vaudere
Edmond Haraucourt
Henry Detouche
Helene de Zuylen de Nyevelt
Jacques Lamer
Gaston Pawlowski
Maurice Magre
Han Ryner


Genre: Literary Fiction