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| Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas |
| The Kalevala |
| The Poetic Edda |
L | Orlando Furioso |
G | The Decameron |
G | Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck |
L | The Lusiads |
M | Don Quixote |
| Exemplary Stories |
C | The Adventures of Pinocchio |
D | The Divine Comedy |
| Vita Nuova |
L | Three Major Plays |
J. W. | Elective Affinities |
| Erotic Poems |
| Faust: Part One and Part Two |
| The Flight to Italy |
J | Selected Tales |
E. T. A. H | The Golden Pot and Other Tales |
H | An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm |
| Four Major Plays |
| Peer Gynt |
L | Selections from the Notebooks |
F | Four Major Plays |
M | Life, Letters, and Poetry |
P | Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works |
J. C. F. S | Don Carlos |
J | Miss Julie and Other Plays |
1
Quoted in Guy Ducrey (ed.),
Romans fin-de-siècle, 1890–1900
(Paris: Laffont 1999), p. xxvi.
2
The definition is by Tzvétan Todorov, quoted in Guy de Maupassant,
Le Horla
, ed. Alain Géraudelle (Paris: Hachette, 2006), 208–9.
3
See Remy de Gourmont, ‘Stéphane Mallarmé et l’idée de décadence’, in
La Culture des idées
, ed. Hubert Juin (Paris: Éditions 10/18, 1983), 119–37.
4
J.-K. Huysmans,
A Rebours
(Paris: Gallimard, collection Folio, 1983), 98.
5
See Marc Fumaroli’s preface to J.-K. Huysmans,
A Rebours
, 26.
6
See Baudelaire,
Oeuvres complètes
, vol. 1, ed. Claude Pichois (Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1983), 668.
7
Eliot uses the term in his essay ‘The Metaphysicals’ (1921); but he draws on Gourmont’s seminal essay ‘La Dissociation des idées’ (1899), in
La culture des idées
, 81–116.
8
See Adam Phillips, ‘Introduction’ to Sigmund Freud,
Wild Analysis
(London: Penguin, 2002), p. xxiv.
9
See Philippe Lejeune’s study ‘Maupassant and Fetishism’, in Asti Hustvedt (ed.),
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from fin-de-siècle France
(New York: Zone Books, 1998), 774–91.
10
Walter Pater,
The Renaissance
(Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1978), 233–9.
11
Huysmans,
A rebours
, 69.
12
See Mallarmé’s essay ‘Crise de vers’, in
Oeuvre complètes
, ed. H. Mondor et G. Jean-Aubry (Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1945), 360–8.
13
Félix Fénéon,
Nouvelles en trois lignes
(Paris: Éditions Macula, 1990), p. 114.
14
Mallarmé,
Oeuvres complètes
, 365–6.
15
Baudelaire,
Oeuvres complètes
, vol. 1, p. 181.
16
See the introductory essays by Emily Apter, Janet Beizer, Jennifer Birkett, and others in Hustvedt (ed.),
The Decadent Reader
.
17
Léon Bloy,
Histoires désobligeantes
(Talence: L’Arbre Vengeur, 2007), 7.
18
Arthur Symons,
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958), 60.
19
Marcel Schwob,
Oeuvres
, ed. Sylvain Goudemare (Paris: Phébus Libretto, 2002), 509.
20
See Jean-Paul Goujon,
Dossier secret: Pierre Louÿs–Marie de Régnier
(Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 2002).
