Gustave Kahn (1859-1936), prominent art critic and one of the founders of the Symbolist -Movement, in 1894 published his first novel, The Mad King, which is here presented for the first time in English in an adept translation by Colin and Sue Boswell. Written when the author was living in Belgium and editing the anarchist review La Soci?t? nouvelle, The Mad King, highly experimental in nature, is a minor masterpiece of fin-de-si?cle irony, chronicling,...