Libros de Jean Lorrain (3 libros)

“The largest, most beautiful impression of my life,” wrote Jean Lorrain to his mother from Venice in 1898. Autumn had arrived, when twilight falls over the city in decorated decadence, crowded with melancholy. Several texts of unique beauty, filled with both poetry and knowledge emerged through his travel. Those that we meet here offer us a vision of Venice that is notably realistic but also fascinating, emotional, and sentimental. Some pages include the cries of anguish from the city's patrons as its architecture deteriorates and is abandoned, while other pages forget about the ruins,...

• Cuento para la noche de Reyes • Historia de la criada Gudule • La princesa de las azucenas rojas • Narración del estudiante • Los agujeros de la máscara Jean Lorrain es el seudónimo de Paul Alexandre Martin Duval (Fécamp, 1855 - París, 1906) escritor francés del movimiento simbolista.

Set in the French Belle Époque, this novel is a masterpiece of fin-de-siècle aesthetics. The affable and talkative Monsieur de Bougrelon is a French expatriate living in Amsterdam, an old dandy who lies forgotten in the midst of a century defined by luxury and vices. Having become a mere puppet taking refuge among ghosts, he encourages two French travelers to stay in Amsterdam, serving as their tour guide to the foggy city and revealing to them a completely different reality than might first be apparent. Con la Belle Époque francesa de trasfondo, esta novela es una obra magistral de la...