Overview
Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis, the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned as one of the foundation-stones of Decadent prose fiction, redolent with echoes of Byron and Poe, reconfigured in the Baudelairean manner, and flamboyant with Gautieresque elements, this book is a tour de force of extravagant implication and esthetic dexterity: a work of peculiar genius. In its vaulting ambitions, its quirky mannerisms, its philosophical posturing and its lush descriptions, Isis is certainly a tale given to excess, but that excess is the essence of the endeavor, the wand of its enchantment.
- | Author: Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam|Brian Stableford
- | Publisher: Snuggly Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 12, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 184 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1645250040
- | ISBN-13: 9781645250043
