From the Sphinx to Pisa: reconciling two faces of Peladan.(Josephin Peladan) From: The Modern Language Review | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Fisher, Ben | COPYRIGHT 2007 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This article deals with unacknowledged parallels between two apparently disparate areas of the work of Josephin Peladan. The early volumes (1892-94) of his doctrinal manuals the Amphitheatre des sciences mortes propose ideals and lifestyles for male and female neophytes, mage and fee, which respond to the Decadent stance of Peladan's novel cycle La Decadence latine. However, it is in a separate series of novels for a different audience, Les Drames de la conscience (1906-12), that P...