Decadence, Degeneration, and the End
Studies in the European Fin de Siècle
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The social, scientific, and industrial revolutions of the later nine-teenth century brought with them a ferment of new artistic visions. An emphasis on scientific determinism and the depiction of reality led t...
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D’Annunzio was obsessed with death. In his last autobiographical work, Libro segreto (The Secret Book, 1935), he calls his peculiar memories “studies of death,” as death in one way or another often appeared in hi...