by Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440611789
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«Contes cruels» is a collection of stories by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, published by Edicions B in paperback (277 pages, in Catalan).
The tales move from the mystery inherited from Poe and Hoffmann to a defeatist-toned science fiction, with corrosive humor and oppressive atmospheres. Villiers criticizes nineteenth-century bourgeois society through highly pure prose combining learned terms and colloquial expressions, within a sensibility close to symbolism.
Catalan translation by Albert Mestres, first complete version of these stories in that language. 1990 edition in the Linia d'Ombra collection; the original French work was published in 1883.
For readers of fantastic literature and nineteenth-century French classics, with a taste for mystery, the Gothic and the short story.
