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050 4 _aPQ
100 1 _aHuysmans, J.-K.
_q(Joris-Karl),
_d1848-1907
240 1 0 _aA rebours. English
245 1 0 _aAgainst the Grain
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_rebours
500 _aRelease date is 2004-05-01
508 _aProduced by Harrison Ainsworth
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into English
653 _aAesthetics -- Fiction
700 1 _aHoward, John
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12341
999 _c53759
_d53759