Ronald Firbank is, by all standards, a remarkable novelist who reshaped the Decadent Tradition into thoroughly original and highly artistic novels. However, he has fallen into obscurity due to a variety of factors, one of which is the unavailability of most of his books on a large scale until recently when his novels began to be republished in Britain and America"). Another factor is the widespread wrong idea that he belongs only to the 1890s though his books were largely written in the pre-World War I and the 1920s. But the major factor, I think, is that his period coincided with the period of serious renowned novelists like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H.Lawrence who, because of the particular cultural scene of the time, overshadowed novelists like Firbank and William Gerhardie, another great novelist and equally obscure. Meanwhile, no critic can afford to disregard the fact that Firbank had a considerable effect on novelists like Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton Burnett and Norman Douglas. Moreover, there are scenes in Firbank's novels which, as Anthony Powell remarks, are ,a foreshadowing of Finnegans Wake...in the association of ideas, But while Joyce penetrates deep into the heart of a very real Dublin, Firbahk penetrates into the heartless, superfined world of imaginary courts and salons, Firbank's work does not approach the complexity and density of Joyce's , yet in reading Firbank one should be on the alert in order not to miss a fine pun or a latent wit for Firbank laboured hard to achieve the casual effect of flashing brilliance that marks his work. It is the intention of this paper to point out the major devices that make of Firbank's work a remarkable achievement.