Errant Vice

Jean Lorrain

Translated by Brian Stableford

Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement.

A blackly comic novel starring Count Wladimir Noronsoff, the last of an accursed branch of a Russian aristocratic family, this is arguably the most outrageous of Jean Lorrain’s works, with a richness of perversity and a quasi-imperial craziness in which the Côte d’Azur is an arena where echoes of Byzantium resound.

This is a novel of fascinating moral and artistic complexity which, with its horror and sadness, humor and tragedy, is the climax of the author’s career.

About the Author
Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was the pseudonym of Paul Alexandre Martin ¬Duval. He was one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement and the author of numerous novels, volumes of poetry and short stories. At one point he was probably the highest paid journalist in France. Though mostly remembered today for his famous duel with Marcel Proust, he might be seen as the true chronicler of the fin-de-siècle. His short story collections Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker and The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies were previously published by Snuggly Books.

 
Paperback, 312 pages. Release date: October 2, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1943813711
Price: US$22.00

Hardcover, 314 pages. Limited to 100 copies
Release date: October 2, 2018
Price: US$35.50