The Mirror of Legends

Here available in English for the first time in a splendid translation by Brian Stableford The Mirror of Legends one of the important collections of French Symbolist Bernard Lazare (1865-1903) offers a melange of stories based on Greek mythological and Biblical sources. In prose coiling as effusively as the smoke from a swinging censer the esoteric lore of centuries is paraded before the reader in this series of incantatory poem-like tales that form an eclectic myth-cycle of their own. A mixture of erudition heretical speculation and heightened lyricism The Mirror of Legends presents a unique artistic statement of metaphysics aesthetics and ethics.