Morose Vignettes

Proses moroses Remy de Gourmonts classic collection of prose poems here presented as Morose Vignettes in its first English translation by Brian Stableford is like a series of fine charcoal sketches or a box of neatly cut gems an exquisite sampling of perfection. Precursory in some ways of surrealism the pieces contained herein representing a distilled essence of prose fiction an osmazome of literature are brief flippant and excessively impressionistic. That combination of traits and the variety of its deployment in the three phases of the text entitles it to be considered a remarkable book entitled to consideration as a true work of art despite its small size.