 Writer James Huneker was exposed to the Decadent movement in France and tried to bring it with him to New York.He has been lauded to his dedication to this cause throughout his career, but it has been suggested that, while he lived as a decadent and heralded their work, his own work was more frustrated, hopeless, and empty of the pleasure that had attracted him to the movement in the first place.Largely, he focused on cynically describing the impossibility of a true American decadence.