Babels Balloons and Innocent Eyes

Charles Morice (1860-1919) a Symbolist writer and art critic who was an early champion of people such as Paul Verlaine Rodin Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin produced during his lifetime a great deal of literature but only a single volume of short prose pieces Quincaille from which the stories and prose-poems in this current volume are taken translated into English by Brian Stableford for the first time.Morices prose poems and short stories frequently blend the lachrymose and the cynical in a distinctive alloy shaped by his particular Symbolist method and Decadent style which bring many of his confessional pieces close to a surreal stream-of-consciousness that was somewhat ahead of its time but his works span a broad and rich spectrum illustrated by the selections translated herein.