À rebours: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. The narrative is almost entirely a catalogue of the neurotic Des Esseintes's aesthetic tastes, musings on literature, painting, and religion, and hyperaesthetic sensory experiences.
Quick facts about À rebours
- Title: À rebours
- Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
- First published: 1884
- Genre: aesthetics, fiction, fiction, general
- OpenLibrary ID: OL2239396W
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À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans.
Who wrote À rebours?
À rebours was written by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
When was À rebours published?
À rebours was first published in 1884.
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