Against Nature: A New Translation of `A Rebours' (Penguin Classics)
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
ISBN 10: 0140440860 ISBN 13: 9780140440867
Published by Penguin Classics, 1959
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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.
About the Author: Nicholas White is Lecturer in French at Royal Holloway College, University of London.
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Title: Against Nature: A New Translation of `A ...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good