315 pages
English language
Published 2008 by Dedalus, Distributed in the USA by SCB Distributors.
Joris-Karl Huysmans: Against nature = (2008, Dedalus, Distributed in the USA by SCB Distributors)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-903517-65-9
- OCLC Number:
- 155688699
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"A rebours" is a novel by a French writer (translated: "Against the forward direction"). All the novel is concentrate in one eccentric character and it's inner life: Jean des Esseintes. This upper-class antihero is an aesthete who loath his contemporaries and lives retreated in his once splendid and rich home, where he collects objects of art, reads and comments his readings.
Subjects
- Aesthetics -- Fiction.