by Joris-Karl Huysmans · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070368983
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«À Rebours» is the decadent novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, published by Folio in paperback (433 pages, in French).
The aristocrat Des Esseintes shuts himself away at home to escape society and devote himself to an ideal of refinement: art, books, perfumes and artificial sensations. His experiments and reflections lead him through ennui, irony and disenchantment, in a portrait of the decadent spirit.
Edition in the Folio collection (no. 898) prepared by Marc Fumaroli. Work originally published in 1884.
For readers of nineteenth-century French literature and the decadent movement, with an interest in one of its characteristic works.
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.
