Joris Karl Huysmans

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Against NaturePaperback, 22 February 2022

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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Picador USA
Date Published
22 Feb 2022
ISBN-10
1250787661
ISBN-13
9781250787668

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**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 Esseintes retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois society and leads a life based on cultivation of the senses through art. He distills perfumes from the rarest oils and essences, creates a garden of poisonous flowers, sets gemstones in a tortoise's gold-painted shell, and plans to corrupt a street urchin until he is degraded enough to commit murder. Des Esseintes's groundbreaking aesthetic pilgrimage in Against Nature has served as the guidebook to decadence for more than a century, inspiring writers from Oscar Wilde to Michel Houellebecq.

A pioneer whose early work took inspiration from Baudelaire and Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a founder of the nineteenth-century decadent movement. Against Nature has influenced countless writers and artists and enjoys a cult following to this day. This new translation by Theo Cuffe, with a foreword by Lucy Sante, captures the magnificence of Huysmans's famous style--filled with wit and irony, expressiveness and precision, erudition and sensuality.

Product Details

Author:
Joris Karl Huysmans
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
22 February 2022
Dimensions:
18.29 x 12.19 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
1250787661
ISBN-13:
9781250787668
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Weight:
226.8 gm

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