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À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete.
- Joris Karl Huysmans
- 1884
Against the Grain, novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, published in French as À rebours in 1884. It was also translated into English as Against Nature. In both its style and its subject, the work epitomizes the decadence of late 19th-century French elite culture. The protagonist, Des Esseintes, exhibits.
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Sep 5, 2023 · Tamra ANDREWS. | Certified Educator. Last Updated September 5, 2023. Against the Grain, or a Rebours, was written by Joris Huysmans in 1884, and it tells the story of a young duke named Jean...
May 14, 2004 · Des Esseintes is captivated by the character of Salome, and praises Moreau for focusing on the "disquieting exaltation of this dancer, the refined grandeur of this murderess." Meanwhile, he dismisses Rubens' depiction of Salome as a "butcher's wife of Flanders."
Mar 15, 2011 · Des Esseintes postulates that the same climate of elegant decay, the same rank, gamey smell of refined degeneracy permeates the upper classes of the end of the nineteenth century, affecting not just their mores, but their artistic achievements.
[Des Esseintes] spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all the passions and modes of thought that belonged to every century except his own. Additionally, Des Esseintes's...
May 14, 2004 · The Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, had originally been a family of stalwart troopers and stern cavalry men. Closely arrayed, side by side, in the old frames which their broad shoulders filled, they startled one with the fixed gaze of their eyes, their fierce moustaches and the ...
