Against Nature

Name: Against Nature
SKU: 1660482
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Joris-Karl Huysmans

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The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, 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, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell...

Author Biography:

Born in Paris in 1848 and acknowledged as a principal architect of the fin-de-si cle imagination, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours (1884) and L -Bas (1891). Huysmans died in 1907. Robert Baldick (d.1972) translated widely from the French and wrote a biography of Huysmans. Patrick McGuinness is a Fellow and Tutor in French at St Anne's College, Oxford, and editor of Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siecle (Exeter UP, 2000).

Release date Australia

May 1st, 2003

Author

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Introduction by Patrick McGuinness
Notes by Patrick McGuinness
Translated by Patrick McGuinness

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Imprint

Penguin Classics

Pages

288

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Dimensions

129x198x17

ISBN-13

9780140447637

Product ID

1660482

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