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Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907.
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Aesthetics -- Fiction.
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Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907.
Aesthetics -- Fiction.
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Against
nature
/ Joris K.
Huysmans
.
by
Huysmans
,
J
.-K. (
Joris-Karl
),
1848-1907
.
Dover Publications, Inc., 2018.
Call #:
FICTION HUY
Subjects
Aesthetics -- Fiction.
Series
Dover thrift editions.
ISBN:
9780486826615 (trade pbk)
Uniform title:
A rebours. English
Edition:
Dover ed.
Description:
xix, 180 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an unabridged republication of the English translation published by Three Sirens Press, New York, in 1931 [first edition: 1884]. A new introductory Note has been specifically prepared for this edition."--T.p. verso.
Translated from the French.
Summary:
"In this 1884 novel, the last scion of a once-powerful family retreats from his bourgeois life in Paris to an isolated villa where he spends his days in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. A classic account of the quest for enlarged experience and new sensations,
Against
Nature
scandalized Victorian critics with its break from naturalism and embrace of fin-de-siecle decadence"--Publisher.
Genre:
French fiction -- Translations into English.
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