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Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was "Against Nature."...
Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was Against Nature....
Against the Grain is about eccentric and reclusive asethete Jean des Esseintes. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes ninete...
Against Nature
"À Rebours",by Joris-Karl Huysmans, or Against Nature...
Against Nature (A Rebours) By Joris-Karl Huysmans, John Howard (Translated by)...
Against Nature (A rebours) centers on Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esse...
Huysmans was a French novelist noted for his vast scope of language, his sensuous descriptions and satirical wit. His pessimistic outlook showed a dee...
"The Cathedral" from Joris Karl Huysmans. French novelist (1848-1907)....
Against the Grain
With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-si�cle novel follows its sole character, Des E...
The Damned (Là-bas) By Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (February 5, 1848 - May 12, 1907) was a French novelist who published his w...
(a Rebours)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
The Cathedral (French: La Cathédrale) (1898) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. A revised English edition was published in 2011.It ...
Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a...
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (February 5, 1848 - May 12, 1907) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans; he is most famo...
French novelist Charles Marie George Huysmans (1848-1907) adopted the pseudonym Joris-Karl, or J.-K. Huysmans, for his novels, short stories and art c...
A Journey Into the Self
Cult curio about satanism in fin-de-siecle Paris. The classic tale of satanism and sexual obsession in nineteenth-century Paris, in an attractive new ...
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La Bible de l'esprit décadent et de la "charogne" 1900. À travers le personnage de des Esseintes, Huysmans n'a pas seulement résumé, immortalisé ...
The Damned (Là-bas)by Joris-Karl HuysmansAt the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in history, ...
A Novel
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 ...
A Novel Without a Plot
"Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, a...
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Study of obsession and aesthetics in fin-de-siecle France....
From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans
From a series of inductive analyses of the best-known French novels of the past century, this study develops a theory of the ways in which the notion ...
Down There
Regarded as a study in Satanism, ''la-Bas'' by Huysmans presents the most detailed descriptions of the black magic and rituals. He regarded Satanism a...
À rebours contains many themes that became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from Naturalism and became the ultimate exa...
Huysmans est passionné par la démonologie et le surnaturel. Son héros, Durtal, est un historien amené à s ́interroger sur la doctrine chrétienn...
Summary The hero Durtal, a mediocre Parisian author, is investigating Gilles de Rais, who was accused in the 15th century of having raped and tortured...
The Des Esseintes line - a once powerful, proud, and noble family lineage - has arrived at a remarkable end in the person of Jean des Esseintes. Havin...
Meet Jean des Esseintes: reclusive, diseased, the last scion of an outmoded aristocratic family. He is also an unapologetic aesthete, prone to overwhe...
A Study in Satanism