French Decadent Tales

''He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.''A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. While ''Decadence'' was a European movement, its epicentre was the Fr...