Against Nature
The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell...
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Weitere Autoren: McGuinness, Patrick (Anmerk.) / McGuinness, Patrick (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-190660-7
- EAN: 9780141906607
- Produktnummer: 17830917
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 404 KB
Über den Autor
Born in Paris in 1848 and acknowledged as a principal architect of the fin-de-siècle imagination, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours (1884) and Là-Bas (1891). Huysmans died in 1907.Robert Baldick (d.1972) translated widely from the French and wrote a biography of Huysmans.Patrick McGuinness is a Fellow and Tutor in French at St Anne's College, Oxford, and editor of Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siecle (Exeter UP, 2000).
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