{"product_id":"salome-under-the-hill-9781871592122","title":"Salome \u0026 Under the Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis joint centennial edition of Salome and Under the Hill  united by seventeen of Beardsleys unsurpassable drawings  is a timely rehabilitation of these two all-too-often ignored fin-de-siecle texts  and constitues a volume of unadulterated Decadent Erotica which must surely stand as the apogee of its kind. Censored  banned  and ridiculed upon publication  Oscar Wildes Salome  written in 1892 in the French language  must now be viewed as one of the greatest of all Decadent texts; an aesthetic masterwork which has seldom been accorded due respect. Salome is an evocation of biblical horror in which blasphemies abound. More than this  its atmosphere seethes with a dangerous erotic charge from the very outset. Relentless  hypnotic repetitions in the words  arranged in fugue candences  the tale unfolds with the inexorable acceleration of an orgasmic nightmare. Aubrey Beardsleys Under the Hill  a short work commenced in 1894  but left unfinished at the time of Beardsleys premature demise  nonetheless achieves the quintessence of Decadence  an evocation of a synaesthetic pleasure dome. A unique and indispensable text for any who seek the uttermost extremes of the manifest imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931709440053,"sku":"ByrdShop_1871592127","price":91.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781871592122.jpg?v=1794216850","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/salome-under-the-hill-9781871592122","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}