Jean DÉsque 1 hr 8 min read

An ornate, phantasmagoric narrative poem born of a September afternoon's flight into oblivion.

Jean Désque's 1908 verse work is a florid, dreamlike fin-de-siècle poem, its author confessing in a baroque preface to a 'wild phantasmagoric dream.' A curious period piece of decadent literary fantasy in verse. Read it for an ornate, hallucinatory poem in the extravagant style of the turn-of-the-century imagination.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 8 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).