Against the Grain - Softcover

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537769561 ISBN 13: 9781537769561

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

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 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. Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (1848–1907) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl) Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel "À rebours" (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by a 30-year career in the French civil service. Huysmans' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition. First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of "À rebours".

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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)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1537769561
• ISBN 13: 9781537769561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112