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Against the Grain

Por: Colaborador(es): Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2004Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido:
  • text
Tipo de medio:
  • computer
Tipo de soporte:
  • online resource
Títulos uniformes:
  • A rebours. English
Tema(s): Clasificación LoC:
  • PQ
Recursos en línea: Créditos de producción:
  • Produced by Harrison Ainsworth
Resumen: "Against the Grain" by J.-K. Huysmans is a novel published in 1884. It follows Jean des Esseintes, the last member of a declining aristocratic family, who retreats from Parisian society to live in isolated aesthetic contemplation. The plotless narrative catalogues his eccentric experiments with art, literature, perfumes, and exotic flowers as he creates an artificial world that reflects his rejection of bourgeois life. This groundbreaking work abandoned Naturalism to become the defining example of Decadent literature, influencing Oscar Wilde and the Symbolist movement. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_rebours

Release date is 2004-05-01

Produced by Harrison Ainsworth

"Against the Grain" by J.-K. Huysmans is a novel published in 1884. It follows Jean des Esseintes, the last member of a declining aristocratic family, who retreats from Parisian society to live in isolated aesthetic contemplation. The plotless narrative catalogues his eccentric experiments with art, literature, perfumes, and exotic flowers as he creates an artificial world that reflects his rejection of bourgeois life. This groundbreaking work abandoned Naturalism to become the defining example of Decadent literature, influencing Oscar Wilde and the Symbolist movement. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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