Masks in the Tapestry

Jean Lorrain one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here for the first time in English are ten such tales: stories of princes and princesses; mock-fairytales that seem to pervert the innocence of their settings with a triumphant immorality plunging the reader into an atmosphere of voluptuousness and sensuality.Whoever has not believed as a child wrote the author will not dream as a young man; it is necessary to think on the threshold of life of weaving beautiful tapestries of dreams in order to decorate our abode as winter approaches; and beautiful dreams even when faded make the sumptuous tapestries of December.