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With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts ...
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Analysis and discussion of characters in Charles Marie Georges Huysmans's Against the Grain.
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Sep 27, 2023 · Découvrez la vie et l'œuvre de Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), notamment connu pour son roman À rebours et son héros Jean des Esseintes. Avec À Rebours et son héros Jean des Esseintes, Huysmans dresse le portrait archétypal du dandy mélancolique et en fait un manifeste du décadentisme.
Mar 12, 1992 · When her identical twin sister goes out of town, a bored and sexually frustrated woman adopts her sibling's promiscuous identity, but soon finds herself involved in a murder case. Gregory Dark. Director. Georges des Esseintes. Writer.
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 des Esseintes who indulges in a life of...
Critical Evaluation. Against the Grain became the central document of the French Decadents, partly because its elaborate description of Des Esseintes’s tastes in art and literature...
