Against the Grain - Softcover

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534857524 ISBN 13: 9781534857520

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

À rebours (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 creation. À rebours 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.

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About the Author

J.K.Huysmans began writing as a naturalist in the style of Zola. .He changed from being an obscure author and art critic to one of the most famous authors of his day with the publication of A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884. His novel about Satanism, La-Bas (1891)is the cult novel of the nineteenth century.

Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1534857524
• ISBN 13: 9781534857520
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Edibooks