AGAINST NATURE by Huysmans, J-. K ISBN 0192823671
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This novel focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high taste, he offers a treasure trove of cultural delights anticipating many of the strains of modernism.
'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high taste, he offers Huysmans's readers a treasure trove of cultural delights which anticipates many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by indispensable notes which enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work.
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[edit] Title
AGAINST NATURE
[edit] Author
Huysmans, J-. K
[edit] ISBN
0192823671
[edit] Published
18/06/1998
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback (B format)
[edit] Retail Price
7.99 (GBP)
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7.19 (GBP)
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