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Against Nature

Af: Joris-Karl Huysmans Engelsk Paperback

Against Nature

Af: Joris-Karl Huysmans Engelsk Paperback
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Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde''s Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans'' Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in Penguin Classics.

A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes and a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences. Against Nature, in the words of the author, exploded ''like a meteorite'' and has enjoyed a cult following to this day.

This revised edition of Robert Baldick''s lucid translation features a new introduction and a chronology, and reproduces Huysmans''s original 1903 preface as well as a selection of reviews from writers including Mallarmé, Zola and Wilde.

Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) is now recognized as one of the most challenging and innovative figures in European literature and an acknowledged principal architect of the fin-de-siècle imagination. He was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours and Là-Bas.

If you enjoyed Against Nature, you might like Huysmans''s The Damned (La-Bas), also available in Penguin Classics.

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Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde''s Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans'' Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in Penguin Classics.

A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes and a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences. Against Nature, in the words of the author, exploded ''like a meteorite'' and has enjoyed a cult following to this day.

This revised edition of Robert Baldick''s lucid translation features a new introduction and a chronology, and reproduces Huysmans''s original 1903 preface as well as a selection of reviews from writers including Mallarmé, Zola and Wilde.

Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) is now recognized as one of the most challenging and innovative figures in European literature and an acknowledged principal architect of the fin-de-siècle imagination. He was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours and Là-Bas.

If you enjoyed Against Nature, you might like Huysmans''s The Damned (La-Bas), also available in Penguin Classics.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780140447637
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0140447636
Udg. Dato: 1 maj 2003
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 135mm
Højde: 199mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 maj 2003
Forfatter(e): Joris-Karl Huysmans
Forfatter(e) Joris-Karl Huysmans


Kategori Klassisk skønlitteratur


ISBN-13 9780140447637


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 288


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 135mm


Højde 199mm


Udg. Dato 1 maj 2003


Oplagsdato 1 maj 2003


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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