Decadence


Against Nature
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Les Fleurs du Mal
Là-Bas (Down There)
The Craziest Book Ever Written
Salomé
The Torture Garden
Venus in Furs
Il piacere
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker
Les Diaboliques
Paris Spleen
Monsieur Vénus
The Great Gatsby
Monsieur de Phocas
Michael Bassey Johnson
Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.
Michael Bassey Johnson

Joris-Karl Huysmans
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening cli ...more
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

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