Astarta. Lorren J.

Jean Lorren (1855-1906)-a name that seems to be heard somewhere, although few can boast of reading the books of this author. Once he was very famous: for the high -society Paris, he was a direct successor to the work of the Gonkur brothers, and for readers is simpler - the embodiment of all the evil and vicious, which could only arise in modern civilization. Astarta is a novel of 1901 and one of the beginnings of modern literature, which no longer shows the difficulties and inconsistency of character, but experiments with this character, finding out how he himself can end his complexity.