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Against Nature
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...
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) was a French novelist and art critic who was one of the founders of the decadent movement in France. His most famous work, Against Nature (A rebours), was a seminal novel of this movement. He also wrote novels in the naturalist tradition of ?mile Zola--including Marthe, Histoire d'une fille; Les soeurs Vatard; and En menage--and poetry inspired by Baudelaire's...
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, Theo Cuffe (Translator), Lucy Sante (Introduction by)
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