Diaboliques - Six Tales of Decadence - Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly Vladimir Nabokov The marvel and enchantment of

The marvel and enchantment of this story is its revelation of the mind as it belongs only to the world of children

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Diaboliques - Six Tales of Decadence - Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly Vladimir Nabokov The marvel and enchantment ofDiaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence by Jules Barbey dAurevilly ISBN 9780816696901 303 page paperback from University of Minnesota Press *** With its six trenchant tales of perverse love, Diaboliques proved so scandalous on its original appearance in 1874 that it was declared a danger to public morality and seized on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. More shocking in our day is how little known this masterpiece of French decadent fiction is,