The paper applies the reading grid of Hegel's conception of history to two texts from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, "Traité du Narcisse. Théorie du symbole" by André Gid and "Narkissos" by Jean Lorrain.
It looks for an intersection between the deeper meaning layers of symbolo-decadent texts and Hegel's concept of the end of history (taking into account his Aesthetics) based on the hermeneutic assumption that the mythical Narcissus can be read in fin-de-siècle poetics and in various authorial versions as a symbol of the sovereign, among other things aesthetic values, Beautiful.