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Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel and narrative almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes. Des Esseintes, is a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments. Charles-Marie-Georges was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl. He is most famous for the novel Ŕ rebours (Against the Grain or Against Nature). His style is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging vocabulary, wealth of detailed and sensuous description, and biting, satirical wit.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Against Nature
• Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156
• EAN: 9781612039114
• ISBN: 9781612039114
• ID: 08796408
• Publisher: Spastic Cat Press
• Weight: 234 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. June 2011

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