Quotes by : Asti Hustvedt

In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of....

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this....

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other....

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions....

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction;....

By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.....

Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they....