The Angels of Perversity

Author: Remy de Gourmont

Translator: Francis Amery  

Reviews

Anatole France called Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) the 'greatest living French writer'. The stories Francis Amery has collected and translated under the not inappropriate title The Angels of Perversity are from the first half of Gourmont's career, when, as a writer of short fictions he established himself as a significant figure in the Symbolist movement.

Adrian Tahourdin in The Times Literary Supplement

The stories themselves are tremulous, incense-ridden affairs in which enervated decadents slake their lust.

Mike Petty in The Literary Review