Joris-karl huysmans against the grain louisville

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    • À rebours

    1884 book by Joris-Karl Huysmans

    For the song by British band Babyshambles, see À rebours (song).

    Frontispiece of the first edition where "in collaboration" with the publisher Charpentier one can discern, among others, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Henry Cérard, Paul Alexis.

    AuthorJoris-Karl Huysmans
    Original titleÀ rebours
    LanguageFrench
    GenreDecadent
    PublisherCharpentier

    Publication date

    		May 1884
    Publication placeFrance

    À rebours (French pronunciation:[aʁ(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