Against Nature: A Rebours - Lawrence Burton

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epub | 7.3 MB | English| Isbn:0199555117 | Author: Lawrence Burton | Year: 2009​

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Joris-Karl Huysmans's cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo Cuffe

A celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abandon, and the aesthetics of artifice, Against Nature brings us the nineteenth-century rebel Jean Des Esseintes-disaffected, degenerate, and art obsessed. The last of a proud and noble family, Des Esseintes retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois society and leads a life based on cultivation of the senses through art. He distills perfumes from the rarest oils and essences, creates a garden of poisonous flowers, sets gemstones in a tortoise's gold-painted shell, and plans to corrupt a street urchin until he is degraded enough to commit murder. Des Esseintes's groundbreaking aesthetic pilgrimage in Against Nature has served as the guidebook to decadence for more than a century, inspiring writers from Oscar Wilde to Michel Houellebecq.

A pioneer whose early work took inspiration from Baudelaire and Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a founder of the nineteenth-century decadent movement. Against Nature has influenced countless writers and artists and enjoys a cult following to this day. This new translation by Theo Cuffe, with a foreword by Lucy Sante, captures the magnificence of Huysmans's famous style-filled with wit and irony, expressiveness and precision, erudition and sensuality.

Category:Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, French Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, Motivations - Fiction, Character Types - Fiction, 19th Century French Fiction, Fiction Classics - Other, Hedonism & Decadence - Fiction, Neurotics - Fiction

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