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portada Against Nature
Type
Physical Book
Author
Introduction by
Translated by
Publisher
Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
18.3x12.2x2.3 cm
Weight
0.23 kg.
ISBN13
9781250787668
Categories

Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans (Author) · Lucy Sante (Introduction by) · Theo Cuffe (Translated by) · Picador · Paperback

Against Nature - Huysmans, Joris-Karl ; Cuffe, Theo ; Sante, Lucy

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Synopsis "Against Nature "

Joris-Karl Huysmans's cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo CuffeA celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abandon, and the aesthetics of artifice, Against Nature brings us the nineteenth-century rebel Jean Des Esseintes--disaffected, degenerate, and art obsessed. The last of a proud and noble family, Des Esseintes retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois society and leads a life based on cultivation of the senses through art. He distills perfumes from the rarest oils and essences, creates a garden of poisonous flowers, sets gemstones in a tortoise's gold-painted shell, and plans to corrupt a street urchin until he is degraded enough to commit murder. Des Esseintes's groundbreaking aesthetic pilgrimage in Against Nature has served as the guidebook to decadence for more than a century, inspiring writers from Oscar Wilde to Michel Houellebecq. A pioneer whose early work took inspiration from Baudelaire and Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a founder of the nineteenth-century decadent movement. Against Nature has influenced countless writers and artists and enjoys a cult following to this day. This new translation by Theo Cuffe, with a foreword by Lucy Sante, captures the magnificence of Huysmans's famous style--filled with wit and irony, expressiveness and precision, erudition and sensuality.

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