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"Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place."
- Field Marshall John French
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ZIN Product Number: 10033414
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 Format: Paperback, 227 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192823671
Release Date: Jan 8, 1998
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As Joris-Karl Huysmans predicted in 1884, Against Nature (A rebours) 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 indulges his pleasure in fine art and literature. A compendium of fin-de-siecle cultural decadence, Against Nature anticipates strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme, and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by substantial annotation to enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work.
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A textbook of decadence (sometimes translated as Against the Grain), with a somewhat cheerless aftertaste
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General, Literature: Classics, French Novel And Short Story, Fiction - General, Fiction
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