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unusual facts about fin de siècle



Elena Bacaloglu

Compared to Romanian other women of the fin de siècle, and even to some men, Elena was highly educated, taking her diplomas at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters and the Collège de France.

Felo de se

"Felo de se" is also employed as the title of poems by fin de siècle poet Amy Levy and Georgian poet Richard Hughes.

Generation Sex

It was the first single from the album Fin de Siècle and features narration by presenter and columnist Katie Puckrik.

Hastur

In Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895), a fin-de-siècle collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys"), a place (in "The Repairer of Reputations"), and mentioned without explanation in "The Yellow Sign".


see also

Dušan Jelinčič

Jelinčič's writings are part of the tradition of Slovene mountaineer travelogues, which has been an important current within Slovene literature since the fin-de-siecle period.

Hartmann the Anarchist

Die Anarchisten, an 1891 novel by John Henry Mackay also set in the fin de siècle London anarchist milieu

Laurence Grivot

Taken ill during a performance of Paris fin de siècle by Ernest Blum and Raoul Toché at the Gymnase in 1890 she was forced to retire and died later that year.

Vienna Secession

Schorske, Carl E. "Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego" in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture.