Lust Roman - 1900 - German Edition Author:Gabriele D'Annunzio This book is in German. The following was translated from Amazon in Germany "In 'Desire,' D' Annunzio tells about the hunt of the young Count Andrea Sperelli after the secret of the beauty and the love. The Count, poet and picture artist, Sportsmann and aesthete in one, searches in the spiritual and in the fulfilment of the desire the realizatio... more »n of an ideal existence of the sensory pleasure: The nobleman goes to ruin to the nice Elena Muti who leaves him, nevertheless. None of the next Abenteur is able to comfort the unhappily lover or to daze... In luxuriant pictures D'Annunzio shows the world of a Menschenvon of ingenious sensitivity and cynical egoism in this book without disassembling meanwhile the fluorescent personality of the protagonist analytically. The Aufmerksamekeit completely counts for the select things sworn with word cascades which surround the aesthete in prodigal fullness, and the attempt convicted to the failure, to form to own lives to a piece of art in which maladjusted I becomes the autocrat about a world caught in the sensory drunkenness. Besides, the author manages the exemplary representation of sensitivities which has stamped the mind life of the turn of the century in the Strömumgen of the decadence everywhere in Europe."« less