Rémy de Gourmont Boeken

The stories in The Angels of Perversity are key examples of early Symbolist prose shaped and inspired by the French Decadent consciousness and must rank among the best short stories of the 1890s.The tone of the stories is unique, with an unusual mixture of decadence and eroticism, balanced by an ironic and sentimental view of the world. Anatole France called Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) the 'greatest living French writer'. The stories Francis Amery has collected and translated under the not inappropriate title The Angels of Perversity are from the first half of Gourmont's career, when, as a writer of short fictions he established himself as a significant figure in the Symbolist movement. --Adrian Tahourdin in The Times Literary Supplement

Handbuch des modernen Libertinismus, magische und philosophische Erzählung, diese mysteriöse Flucht in einen von Nacht gehüllten Pariser Garten in Gesellschaft eines Wesens von anderswo, eine Art heidnische Gottheit mit christlichem Flair, ist vor allem eine Einladung zum Glück fernab von Dogmen und vor allem religiös.