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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,998,857 ratings — published 1890
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,891 ratings — published 1884
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 16 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,972 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,959 ratings — published 1899
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,587 ratings — published 1857
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,756 ratings — published 1959
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.23 — 16,103 ratings — published 1857
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 219 ratings — published 2013
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,528 ratings — published 1971
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,114 ratings — published 1884
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,651 ratings — published 1953
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.87 — 977,680 ratings — published 1955
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.44 — 103 ratings — published 1998
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.51 — 32,694 ratings — published 1895
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.66 — 17,825 ratings — published 1890
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.14 — 196 ratings — published 1901
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 72 ratings — published 1990
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,843 ratings — published 1891
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.04 — 584,485 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 381,538 ratings — published 1991
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,922 ratings — published 1782
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,373 ratings — published 1892
Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,602 ratings — published 1870
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,024 ratings — published 1869
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 50,040 ratings — published 1997
Hadrian the Seventh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.44 — 608 ratings — published 1904
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,800 ratings — published 1976
The Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.66 — 254 ratings — published 1898
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,443 ratings — published 1907
Les Chants de Maldoror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,000 ratings — published 1869
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 2016
Imaginary Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,324 ratings — published 1896
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,129 ratings — published 1874
Becalmed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 308 ratings — published 1886
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 243 ratings — published 1895
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,951 ratings — published 1872
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,121,120 ratings — published 1992
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,135,983 ratings — published 1925
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,776 ratings — published 1873
The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 47 ratings — published 1994
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.99 — 72 ratings — published 2007
The King in Yellow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,471 ratings — published
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 542 ratings — published 1896
The Happy Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 38,548 ratings — published 1888
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,499 ratings — published 1969
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 459,908 ratings — published 1957
The Greenwood Faun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.07 — 27 ratings — published 2017
Neo-Decadence Evangelion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.79 — 48 ratings — published 2023
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”
― Les Diaboliques
― Les Diaboliques
“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust.”
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