ishasih 's review for:

Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans

a long and profound exercise in criticism ... i found it at times difficult to believe why the book created such a scandal when it first came out; but, of course, much may be said about the difference in times.
i did enjoy it thoroughly, and it was at once frustrating and amusing that the great nineteenth-century crisis was the same as the one we face today, that of capitalism and haphazard commercialisation.