Errant Vice

Errant Vice here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel starring Count Wladimir Noronsoff the last of an accursed branch of a Russian aristocratic family this is arguably the most outrageous of Jean Lorrains works with a richness of perversity and a quasi-imperial craziness in which the Côte dAzur is an arena where echoes of Byzantium resound.This is a novel of fascinating moral and artistic complexity which with its horror and sadness humor and tragedy is the climax of the authors career.