My French Decadent Project is underway! As previously mentioned, the objective of the Project is to demonstrate that French Decadence/Symbolism is key to the transition from the Romanticism and Naturalism of the 19th century and the Modernism of the 20th Century. This means the Movement deserves much more study. To go after this, I've put together a reading list that has reached about 500 items. That sounds impossible, but there are three things working in my favor. First, French Decadent novels are relatively short: perhaps 150-200 pages, on average. Second, I've already read many of them, and I generally find novels go more quickly the second time around. Not to mention, I'll be going through them with an intention this time rather than just reading them. Third and last, the reading list incorporates plenty of short stories, plays, manifestos, and historical documents, almost all of which are brief. So my reading list isn't quite as heavy a lift as it might seem. I...