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
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
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
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
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
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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
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