The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies by Jean Lorrain NYRB ” wrote Brit Mandelo in

” wrote Brit Mandelo in 2015

is the last hope for Earth

580 color illustrations

These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art

The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies by Jean Lorrain NYRB ” wrote Brit Mandelo inThe Soul Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies by Jean Lorrain, translated by Brian Stableford 265 page paperback from Snuggly Books ISBN 9781943813094 *** No other writer of the fin de sicle period undertook a more elaborate exploration of perversities and abnormalities than Jean Lorrain, and no one else went as far afield in the search for discoveries of that curious kind than he did. Perhaps, given the variety of human behavior, it was not possible