OEuvres, Tome II

Romans decadents - Le Roi vierge, Zo'har, Mephistophela

by Catulle Mendes, edited by Jerome Solal

Book cover: OEuvres, Tome II

Extent: 668 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Literary Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Bibliotheque du XIXe siecle

Series volume number: 80

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9782406093114

Price: $83.00

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Hardback (Published)

(December 2020)

ISBN: 9782406093121

Price: $136.00

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In three of his contemporary novels, Le Roi vierge (1881), Zo’har (1886), and Mephistophela (1890), Catulle Mendes explores fin-de-siecle society, constructing a chaotic and funereal masquerade in which his characters abandon themselves to the “nzy of desire” and to acts of transgression.

  • By (author) Catulle Mendes
  • Edited by Jerome Solal