I just noticed that Snuggly Books has an impressive list of translations of Decadent literature from French and Italian. Some of the names that appear in the catalogue are dear to Confusio Linguarum. So far the following have been released in a translation by Brian M. Stableford:
The Soul-Drinker: And Other Decadent Fantasies by Jean Lorrain
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker by Jean Lorrain
The Tarantulas' Parlor: And Other Unkind Tales by Léon Bloy
The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales by Victor Joly
Monday, 29 May 2017
Sunday, 28 May 2017
Blurb for the Book
Here is the official blurb for the recently published book by D. F. Lewis and myself:
"Life is an abandoned
Amusement, a pleasure of ruins. Few are the solitary souls with a
penchant for the sublime who spend their existence being irresistibly
attracted to crumbling buildings and abandoned places. This book is an
ode to this particular attraction – the feeling of Ruinenlust. Part
fiction collection, part ensemble of essays, the volume presents a
collaboration of two minds preoccupied with the themes of ruination. The
eight fictions by D. F. Lewis, collected here for the first time,
feature characters thrust into depopulated, often devastated landscapes
as we follow their encounters with an enigma. The fictional pieces are
accompanied by a literary equivalent of the Kaiserpanorama experience
wherein the reader is presented with ten short essays by Sławomir
Wielhorski centering on some of the most attractive vistas of ruins and
decay in weird fiction from the early Gothics to the modern masterpieces
of the genre."
Hardcover, Limited to 118 numbered copies, 102 pages
Monday, 8 May 2017
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