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Camille Mauclair’s Les Clefs d’or, originally published in 1897, is one of the most significant Symbolist prose collections of the fin de siècle. The present volume, The Frail Soul and Other Stories, contains eleven pieces from this masterwork, brilliantly translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford.
“Camille Mauclair” was the pseudonym of Séverin Faust (1872-1945), whose roman à clef Le Soleil es morts (1898) is an affectionate memoir of Mallarmé’s mardis, featuring many of the writers still in attendance in the 1890s. He was more prolific as an art critic and music critic than a poet or writer of fiction, and eventually became a specialist in non-fiction, but Les Clefs d’or (Ollendorf 1897), from which the contents of the present volume have been taken, is one of the most significant Symbolist prose collections of the fin de siècle. The material from Les Clefs d’or not in the present volume were published under the title The Virgin Orient and Other Stories (Black Coat Press 2016).
CONTENTS:
The Frail Seed
The Triumph in the Darkness
King Cambyses
Marthe-Henriette
Tylea
Luce-Evelyne
Ilse of the Geraniums
The Evil Hour
The Illusion
The Song of the Eyes
A Fragment on Salome
Published by Snuggly Books in December 2017
ISBN: 978-1-943813-52-0
