Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

by Mel Gordon

Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.

From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190722226X
• ISBN13: 9781907222269
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 6.5"