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Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas

 

The Kalevala

 

The Poetic Edda

L
UDOVICO
A
RIOSTO

Orlando Furioso

G
IOVANNI
B
OCCACCIO

The Decameron

G
EORG
B
ÜCHNER

Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck

L
UIS VAZ DE
C
AMÕES

The Lusiads

M
IGUEL DE
C
ERVANTES

Don Quixote

 

Exemplary Stories

C
ARLO
C
OLLODI

The Adventures of Pinocchio

D
ANTE
A
LIGHIERI

The Divine Comedy

 

Vita Nuova

L
OPE DE
V
EGA

Three Major Plays

J. W.
VON
G
OETHE

Elective Affinities

 

Erotic Poems

 

Faust: Part One and Part Two

 

The Flight to Italy

J
ACOB AND
W
ILHELM
G
RIMM

Selected Tales

E. T. A. H
OFFMANN

The Golden Pot and Other Tales

H
ENRIK
I
BSEN

An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm

 

Four Major Plays

 

Peer Gynt

L
EONARDO DA
V
INCI

Selections from the Notebooks

F
EDERICO
G
ARCIA
L
ORCA

Four Major Plays

M
ICHELANGELO
B
UONARROTI

Life, Letters, and Poetry

P
ETRARCH

Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works

J. C. F. S
CHILLER

Don Carlos
and
Mary Stuart

J
OHANN
A
UGUST
S
TRINDBERG

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).

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