Monsieur de Phocas - Jean Lorrain Vitezslav Nezval producing some of the avant-garde's

producing some of the avant-garde's most lucid considerations of what it means to make music

Alworth / ISBN 9780399581021 / Hardcover from Ten Speed Press

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“What’s interesting about the project here—and I think that it succeeds beautifully—is that these tales represent American voices and symbolist

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Monsieur de Phocas - Jean Lorrain Vitezslav Nezval producing some of the avant-garde'sMonsieur de Phocas by Jean Lorrain, translated by Francis Amery ISBN 9781912868094 270 page paperback from Dedalus European Classics *** Monsieur de Phocas ranks with A Rebours as the summation of the French Decadent Movement. Modeled on The Portrait of Dorian Gray, it drips with evil and certainly would have unpublishable in fin de siecle England. "With Ethel's friends, grotesque, aging decadents, Phocas for the first time tastes opium. He