Monsieur de Phocas, Astarté: Roman by Jean Lorrain
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"Monsieur de Phocas, Astarté: Roman" by Jean Lorrain is a novel published in 1901. The Duke de Fréneuse, a jaded aristocrat and ether addict, confides his intimate journal to a narrator. Within these pages, he reveals his obsessive quest for a mysterious "glaucous transparency"—a green light first glimpsed in ancient eyes. This pursuit leads him through precious gems, portraits, and masks, into encounters with the malevolent Claudius Ethal. A cornerstone of Decadent
literature, the novel explores decay, perversion, and phantasmagoric visions in fin-de-siècle society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lorrain, Jean, 1855-1906 |
|---|---|
| Title | Monsieur de Phocas, Astarté: Roman |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_de_Phocas |
| Credits |
Produced by Clarity, Hélène de Mink, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Fiction |
| Subject | French fiction |
| Subject | Drug addicts -- Fiction |
| Subject | Opium abuse -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 41413 |
| Release Date | Nov 20, 2012 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 586 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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