Melancholy Eros: Beauty and Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle France, Volume 1, Edited by Kunio Tsuji

The Beauty and Dreams of the Fin de Siècle 1: France, Melancholy Eros
Edited by Kunio Tsuji
Shueisha, 1986

Now, the Fin de Siècle Renaissance! The glamorous Belle Époque, the pleasure capital of Paris. Women of fate burn with fire, and cursed poets embark on adventures of beauty! The terrifying events and crimes of the late 19th century. The brilliance of the artists who lived through the fin de siècle. The elite of today compete with their pens, depicting everything of the fin de siècle in a kaleidoscope!

Contents
Dialogue: Akimasa Kanno vs. Kunio Tsuji
An Invitation to the Fin de Siècle: The Future of the Fin de Siècle Spirit - The Beginning of Something New
Background of the Fin de Siècle Era: Three Incidents
The Dreyfus Affair - Between Two Centuries Kazumi Watanabe
The Paris World's Fairs of 1889 and 1900 Christian Pollack
From Montfaucon to "The Ripper Jack"
- Paris-London Fin de Siècle Taijiro Amazawa
People Who Lived Through the Fin de Siècle
Charles Baudelaire
The End of One World, the Beginning of the End of the World Koichi Toyosaki
Marcel Proust
The Time That Should Have Been Lost Fumihiko Takita
The Tentacles of Sarah Bernhardt Juro Kara
Claude Debussy
The Form of Love of the Fin de Siècle Appearing in His Music Masao Hirashima
Fin de Siècle Fantasy
City Story: Fin de Siècle = Belle Époque Paris
Centered on a Lesbian Toru Shimizu
Novel: Night Opens - The Smell of Death in Paris, October Kunio Tsuji
French Fin de Siècle Chronology
Index of Names
Writer Introduction / Photographs and Photo Cooperation

Discussing French society and art of the late 19th century. Rich in photographs and chronologies. It is interesting that this kind of book was published in Japan in the latter half of the 20th century. The Dreyfus Affair, the Paris World's Fair, The Ripper Jack, Proust, Sarah Bernhardt, and a greedy content of Natalie Barney continue, and I was impressed by Koichi Toyosaki's Baudelaire, who mainly talked about letters of anger to his mother, and Masao Hirashima's Debussy, who was depicted in contrast to Wagner. (From a review)

The cover shows some scratches, but the inside is clean.














-Novel


Honya
Honya Western Culture
Honya Western Music
Honya 19th Century
Honya 18th Century
Honya Fin de Siècle
Honya France
Honya England
Honya Western Literature
Honya Manners and Customs
Honya Religion
Honya Crime
Honya World's Fair
Honya Entertainment
Honya Theater