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THE SOLAR CIRCUS by Gustave Kahn

THE SOLAR CIRCUS by Gustave Kahn

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134 x 204mm, 232 pages, Black white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2022 The Solar Circus is the great forgotten masterpiece of French Symbolist literature. Written by Gustave Kahn—the man whom Stéphane Mallarmé and Jules Laforgue credited as inventing free verse poetry—the novel drips in decadent images of pastoral vistas, exotic gemstones, merfolk, and a phantasmagoric menagerie. Inverting day for night and reality for a dazzling dream, The Solar Circus tells the story of a solipsistic, isolated Bavarian count who falls in love with the star of a traveling circus. Their relationship, in

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