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Huysmans, project gutenberg ebook also known as the damned j. Huysmans, a rebours, flaubert, intertextualite, ecriture imitative, allusion litteraire, carnavalisation. The narrative is almost entirely a catalogue of the neurotic des esseintes aesthetic tastes, musings on literature, painting and religion, and. Il trouve ces deux qualites reunies chez poe qu il.

Against nature a rebours, joriskarl huysmans 1884 huysmans against nature is a novel about one man the rich but jaded aristocrat des esseintes and the isolated life he crafts for himself a life governed by aesthetic considerations and the desire to subvert, and even supersede, nature. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form. A rebours against nature joriskarl huysmans 1848 1907. Jean des esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. A web site that aims to provide uptodate and reliable information about the life and work of the french novelist joriskarl huysmans. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Huysmans a rebours commentaires composes amandine83. Works by joriskarl huysmans at librivox public domain audiobooks. Hardcore fans of a rebours will by no means be disappointed and newcomers will have a better chance at this translation as well as get some excellenttruly, truly excellent, and i want to commend the translator for doing thisbackground on a rebours and huysmans and the impact it had during the time than many others, so i can highly. At 20 he began a long career in the ministry of the interior, writing.

What houellebecq learned from huysmans the new yorker. Joriskarl huysmans, french writer whose major novels epitomize successive phases of the aesthetic, spiritual, and intellectual life of late 19thcentury france. A rebours 1884 is a novel by the french writer joriskarl huysmans. Nov 12, 2015 more than a century after his death, joriskarl huysmans, best known for his novel a rebours, has found a modern soul mate in the form of another french novelist, michel houellebecq. A rebours is a novel by the french writer joriskarl huysmans.

The project gutenberg ebook of a rebours, by joriskarl huysmans. A rebours against nature joriskarl huysmans 1848 1907 joriskarl huysmans, a frenchman of dutch ancestry, wrote the defining work of the decadent movement, a movement which began around the time of baudelaires les fleurs du mal 1857, filtered into and flourished in late 19th century england and finally petered out after the trial of oscar wilde 1895. Huysmans 18481907 the aim of this web site is to provide uptodate and reliable information about the life and work of the french novelist, joriskarl huysmans. However, the narrator of a rebours may provide a clue to huysmans own intent aincw he describes the satyricon as analyzing with a calm.

The project gutenberg ebook of a rebours, by joriskarl huysmans this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the united states and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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. Against the grain by joriskarl huysmans, project gutenberg ebook also known as a rebours or against nature labas by j. As joriskarl huysmans predicted in 1884, against nature a rebours was fated to be a novel like no other.