Huysmans Joris - Karl - Against Nature A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Cuffe A 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.
Title: Against Nature A Novel
Author(s): Huysmans Joris - Karl
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250787668
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/22/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction