Against the grain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781981302024)

rebours (translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) (1884) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. rebours contains many themes that became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from Naturalism and became the ultimate example of "decadent" literature.

Author: John Howard, Joris Karl Huysmans
ISBN-10: 1981302026
ISBN-13: 9781981302024
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2017
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23d