Malady of the Century

A young man of the 1880s, exhausted by his own century, drifts between Berlin, Paris and a woman who is worse for him than the age is. Nordau was a physician who co-founded the World Zionist Organization with Herzl - and who wrote Degeneration, the book that told Europe its artists were sick. The plates in this edition are by the very painters he diagnosed: Munch, Klimt, Bocklin, Redon. The argume...