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Against Nature

Against Nature

Huysmans, Joris Karl

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798880901340
Publisher: Start Publishing Pd
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes an eccentric reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. Against Nature containes many themes which became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so it broke from naturalism and became the ultimate example of decadent literature. Jean Des Esseintes is the last member of a powerful and once proud noble family. He has lived an extremely decadent life in Paris which has left him disgusted with human society. Without telling anyone he absconds to a house in the countryside. He fills the house with his eclectic art collection and decides to spend the rest of his life in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. Throughout his intellectual experiments he recalls various debauched events and love affairs of his past in Paris.

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