Description: "Proses Moroses, Remy de Gourmont's classic collection of prose poems, here presented as Morose Vignettes in its first English translation by Brian Stableford, is like a series of fine charcoal sketches, or a box of neatly cut gems ... Precursory in some ways of surrealism, the pieces contained herein, representing a distilled essence of prose fiction, an osmazome of literature, are brief, flippant and excessively impressionistic"--Publisher marketing.