Quotes by Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

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In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in orde — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviate — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent text — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfect — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction. — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France