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Paul Adam (French novelist)

Paul Auguste Marie Adam was a French novelist who became an early proponent of Symbolism in France, and one of the founders of the Symbolist review Le Symboliste. He was a prominent writer in Montmartre's anarchist movement.

Career
Adam's first novel, Chair molle ("Soft Flesh"), was the story of a prostitute in the Naturalist manner, which led to him being prosecuted for immorality before the Cour d'assises and sentenced to a fortnight in prison and a 500-franc fine. Together with Jean Moréas, he co-wrote Les Demoiselles Goubert, a novel that marked the transition to Symbolism in French literature. His Lettres de Malaisie (1897) was speculative fiction about politics in the future. He was born and died in Paris. ==Works==
Works
Chair molle (1885) • Soi (1886) • Les Demoiselles Goubert (with Jean Moréas, 1886) • Le Thé chez Miranda (with Jean Moréas, 1886) • La glèbe (1887) • Les Volontés merveilleuses: Être (1888) • ''Les Volontés merveilleuses: L'essence de soleil'' (1890) • Les Volontés merveilleuses: en décor (1890) • ''L'Époque: Le Vice filial'' (1891) • ''L'Époque: Robes rouges'' (1891) • ''L'Époque: Les Cœurs utiles'' (1892) • ''L'Automne'' (1893, a censored play) • Le Conte futur (1893) • Critique des mœurs (1893) • Les Images sentimentales (1893) • Princesses byzantines (1893) • La Parade amoureuse (1894) • Le Mystère des foules (1895) • Les Cœurs nouveaux (1896) • La Force du mal (1896) • ''L'Année de Clarisse'' (1897, illustrated by Gaston Darbour) • ''La bataille d'Uhde'' (1897) • Le Vice filial (1898, illustrated by Jan Dědina) • Le Temps et la Vie: • La Force (1899) • ''L'Enfant d'Austerlitz'' (1901) • La Ruse, 1827-1828 (1903) • Au soleil de juillet, 1829-1830 (1903) • Basile et Sophia (1901) • Lettres de Malaisie (1898) • Le Troupeau de Clarisse (1904) • Le Serpent noir (1905) • ''Vues d'Amérique'' (1906) • ''Clarisse et l'homme heureux'' (1907) • La Morale des Sports (1907) • La cité prochaine (1908) • Les Impérialismes et la morale des peuples (1908) • Le Malaise du monde latin (1910) • Le Trust (1910) • Contre l’Aigle (1910) • Stéphanie (1913) • ''Le Lion d'Arras'' (1919) • Notre Carthage (1922) • Dieu (1924, published posthumously in La Phalange) == Further reading ==
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