Fards and Poisons - by Jean Lorrain (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Fards and Poisons</em>, originally published in 1903 and here made available for the first time in English in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the more eccentric works of the ever-eccentric Jean Lorrain. Defying the standard narrative expectations of short stories, the items in this volume might be seen as a series of gossipy character sketches, of actresses and mystics, gigolos and dowagers, of an entire rogues gallery of <em>fin de siècle</em> types, which help explain how the author gained a reputation for corrupting public morals by literary means. Resembling fragments excised from a kind of endless series of conversations, the result is a strange literary collage that is perhaps the most quintessential of Lorrain's works: the slice of his life that pins his own literary <em>persona</em> most precisely, like a lepidopterist's long pin.</p><p>Included in the current volume, and for the first time republished since its initial appearance in <em>Le Journal</em>, is also the short story "Victim", for which Lorrain was disastrously sued, and convicted of, libel, the court imposing a massive punitive fine on the author and sentencing him to two months imprisonment, though the rulings were later overturned.</p>
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