Claire Lenoir

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889) was a French Symbolist writer of extraordinary strangeness and originality. His work — dark, ironic, visionary — influenced Huysmans, Maeterlinck, and Yeats. Claire Lenoir (1867) is one of the strangest and most unsettling novellas of the nineteenth century.

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