What Never Dies

by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Oscar Wilde

Jules Amidie Barbey D' Aurevilly (1808-1889) French story-writer and novelist, was the author of. Bewitched (1854), Les Diaboliques (1874), and What Never Dies (1884).After his release from Reading Gaol in 1897, Wilde went to live in France under the alias, Sebastian Melmoth, the name of his favorite martyr from Melmoth: The Wanderer. Under this name he translated What Never Dies.

Genres: French Literature

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a novelist and literary critic at the Bonapartist paper Le Pays who was influential among fin-de-siècle decadents.
He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James and Marcel Proust.