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The Book of Masks
by Remy de Gourmont
Language: English
Categories: Non-Fiction » Literary Criticism
Content Rating: Older than 17
A cabinet of masks opens onto the fin-de-siècle: incisive portraits of poets and painters, dreamers and decadents, each examined like a rare specimen under shifting light. Aphoristic, mischievous, and steeped in Symbolist fog, these sketches peel away poses and myths to reveal the grotesque, the luminous, and the stubbornly human behind every cultivated mask.