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| Egan Beresford, Flowers of Evil, |
It's difficult to grasp decadence without this provisional list of books and characters.
The Master:
Charles Baudelaire, Fleurs du Mal, (bilingual translation)
Pleasure & deviations:
Oscar Wilde, Portrait of Dorian Gray,
Andre Gide, The Immoralist,
Leopold Sacher Masoch, Venus in Furs,
Preciousness, snobism:
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice,
J. K. Huysmans, Against the Grain,
Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle Maupin,
Evil:
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw,
George de Maurier, Trilby,
Hysteria, phobia, ennui, pain:
Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina,
Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground,
Franz Kafka, The Trial,
Monsters:
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis,
Dreams:
Sygmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams,
Artists:
Aubrey Beardsley, (illustrator)
Egan Beresford, (illustration)
Gustave Moreau, (painter)
Fernand Khnopff, (painter)
Gustav Klimt, (painter)
Rodolphe Bresdin, (engraver, illustrator)
Alfred Kubin, (illustrator)
