In front of the reader - is the first publication of the one of the main novels of the French decadence, of "Astarte" (1901) by Jean Lorrain. This is the fantastic novel about the neurasthenic nobleman, charmed by the precious stones and dedicated all his life to the search of the "green and blue" look by the goddess Astarte, this is the novel-diary, full of perverted sensitivity, painful and drug visions.
