Hideous Absinthe: A History of the "Devil in a Bottle" by Jad Adams

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  • ISBN 10 1860649203
  • ISBN 13 9781860649202
  • Published Dec 31 2003
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 256
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
  • Imprint Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Publishers Text

Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice of Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from sterility to madness, to French defeats in World War I. The campaign against the "devil in a bottle" resulted in its ban throughout most of Europe. Its reputation for toxicity eventually extinguished the fin de siecle's infatuation with absinthe, but not before it had influenced many generations of artists on both sides of the channel. This text is a biography of "the green fairy"; from its place in the lives of writers and artists who were inspired - and ruined - by it, to its more recent rediscovery by Ernest Hemingway and today's would-be sophisticates.

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