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The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence : Perversity, Despair and Collapse by Lodge, Kirsten; Rosen, Margo Shohl; Dashevsky, Grigory is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Overview: The sensationalism and morbid pessimism that characterized French decadence in the late nineteenth century quickly attracted converts throughout Europe, including Russia. The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse brings together horrifying, dramatic and erotic short stories and poetry, most of which have never before been translated into English, by the most decadent Russian writers. It includes scandalous writings by the well-known authors Valery Briusov, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub and Zinaida Gippius and acquaints English-speaking readers with the forgotten writer Aleksandr Kondratiev. These writers explore the darkest depths of the unconscious, as their characters experience sadism, masochism, rape, murder, suicide, and, in a story by Gippius, even passionate love for the dead. Briusov, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian decadent movement, describes revolution or the spread of madness leading to the collapse of highly advanced but decadent civilizations that indulge in refined pleasures and ritualized orgies as they await the final hour. Andreyev portrays the collapse of all moral values on a personal level in his famous story "

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Author

Lodge, Kirsten; Rosen, Margo Shohl; Dashevsky, Grigory

Publisher

Dedalus ; Distributed in the USA by SCB Distributors

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781903517604

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14