{"product_id":"babels-balloons-and-innocent-eyes-9781943813834","title":"Babels, Balloons and Innocent Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Morice (1860-1919), a Symbolist writer and art critic who was an early champion of people such as Paul Verlaine, Rodin, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin, produced during his lifetime a great deal of literature, but only a single volume of short prose pieces, \u003cem\u003eQuincaille\u003c\/em\u003e, from which the stories and prose-poems in this current volume are taken, translated into English by Brian Stableford for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorice's prose poems and short stories frequently blend the lachrymose and the cynical in a distinctive alloy, shaped by his particular Symbolist method and Decadent style, which bring many of his confessional pieces close to a surreal stream-of-consciousness that was somewhat ahead of its time, but his works span a broad and rich spectrum, illustrated by the selections translated herein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Snuggly Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365987029266,"sku":"9781943813834","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_289b9ed8-d5da-4fc0-8867-45be4118175b.jpg?v=1728469047","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/babels-balloons-and-innocent-eyes-9781943813834","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}