by Joris-Karl Huysmans · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9781508589310
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«À rebours» is the decadent novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in paperback.
Jean Des Esseintes, an eccentric and world-weary aristocrat, decides to retire to an isolated house to replace social life with a universe of sensations and refinement. The narrative shows him devoted to perfumes, paintings, books, and other aesthetic pleasures, in a journey through the limits of artifice and decadence.
Key work of French decadence. The novel was originally published in 1884; this French-language edition, 168 pages, appeared in 2015.
For those interested in nineteenth-century French literature and the decadent movement.
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself by way of a 30-year career in the French civil service.
