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A superb expression of the vices and virtues recognizable in decadent literature, these Tales of Masks, collected by Jean Lorrain himself for its first publication in 1900, constitute a disturbing repertoire of how this motif identifies us socially. Through a script possessed by the consumption of ether (a kind of "eterography"), this set of stories is characterized by a style of strong hallucinatory, distorting, disruptive pregnancies, and yet capable of staying in truthful modes. of a naturalism taken to its own limits.