Argentine [Large Print]

By Antoine-Louis Duclaux de L'Estoille

This third and final collection of Comte de L'Estoille's works features Les Amoureuses, a collection of short prose poems and dramas, including "Gyptis," a tragedy set within the context of L'Estoille's pseudohistory of Gaul, and "Marthe" and "Rosalie," both resentful responses to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. It also contains the more upbeat "Argentine" and "Lemmi Kainen", both reflective of a burst of interest in Scandinavian mythology among French neo-Romantic writers, borrowing motifs from Hans Christian Andersen.

As an eccentric representative of the literary avant garde, L'Estoille was always perhaps a little too and paradoxical, but that is not a bad thing in a Decadent artist. He was a maverick even within that motley maverick school, but for connoisseurs of the unusual, that serves only to make him even more interesting as a writer and as a man.

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649320221
• ISBN13: 9781649320223
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Hollywood Comics
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"