Description
by
John Howard (Translator),
Joris Karl Huysmans (Author)
rebours (translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) (1884) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own contains many themes that became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from Naturalism and became the ultimate example of “decadent” literature.
Number of Pages: 110Dimensions: 0.23 x 9.02 x 5.98 INPublication Date: November 30, 2017
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