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…
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Weitere Autoren: Sante, Lucy (Solist) / Cuffe, Theo (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-250-78766-8
- EAN: 9781250787668
- Produktnummer: 36301462
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H18.3 cm x B12.2 cm x D2.3 cm 227 g
- Gewicht: 227
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Joris-Karl Huysmans; Foreword by Lucy Sante; Translated from the French by Theo Cuffe
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