Against Nature: A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert Baldick (Translator)
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- Pub. Date: May 1959
- 224pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 1959
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 224pp
- Series: Penguin Classics Series
- ISBN-13: 9780140440867
- ISBN: 0140440860
Synopsis
Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultural delights and anticipates many aspects of twentieth century modernism. Supplemented by notes and a critical introduction, this new translation is sure to engage today's reader.
Biography
Nicholas White is Lecturer in French at Royal Holloway College, University of London.
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July 14, 2008: Anyone who enjoyed Baudelaire, Rimbaud, or Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray will thoroughly enjoy this novel. While there is practically no action in the novel (it is mostly a catalog of the narrator's likes and dislikes) the descriptions and imagery are so vivid and lush that the reader hangs on every word. This is an extremely well written novel that is still quite avant garde considering it was written 110 years ago.
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