Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Against Nature (A Rebours)

Joris-Karl Huysmans with John Howard (Translator)

176 pages first pub 1884 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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Meet Jean des Esseintes: reclusive, diseased, the last scion of an outmoded aristocratic family. He is also an unapologetic aesthete, prone to overwhelmingly intense sensory experiences in the presence of art. As he finds himself ever more enervat...

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