Le Sang des dieux (1920)

Description

Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was one of the most conspicuous figures of French Decadence — chronicler, novelist, and poet of an antiquity rewritten in fever. Le Sang des dieux takes the gods and heroes of myth and gives them the pallor, the cruelty and the perfume of the fin de siecle. It is the book that established his voice.This is the posthumous edition of 1920.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1920 edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.