| Against the Grain Contributor(s): Howard, John (Translator), Edibooks (Editor), Huysmans, Joris-Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 1534857524 ISBN-13: 9781534857520 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.52 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. |