Against Nature: A New Translation of 'a Rebours' (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Huysmans, Joris-Karl; Baldick, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140440860 ISBN 13: 9780140440867

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1973

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Book by Huysmans JorisKarl

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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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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140440860
• ISBN 13: 9780140440867
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224