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Against Nature (Dedalus European Classics) - Softcover

Huysmans, J. K.

 
9781903517659: Against Nature (Dedalus European Classics)
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ISBN 10: 1903517656 ISBN 13: 9781903517659
Verlag: Dedalus Ltd, 2008

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Against Nature is the perfect illustration of Oscar Wilde's famous paradox that life imitates art, and not the other way around. First published in Paris in 1884 when the Naturalistic school - of which Huysmans himself was a major figure - was at its height, it delivered a body-blow to Zola's brand of literary realism, and almost single-handedly redefined the literary and artistic canon of the nineteenth century in the process. To a rising generation of readers, writers and artists across Europe, Huysmans' novel was the instruction manual of a movement that was to become emblematic of fin-de-siecle France: Decadence. The novel tells the story of its decadent aristocratic anti-hero, Jean Floressas des Esseintes, who, bored by the aesthetic and carnal pleasures the Parisian beau monde has to offer, decides to sell up and move to an isolated house in the suburbs. There he constructs a world of artifice that exactly minors his super-subtle, perverse and painfully neurotic sensibility. The result is one of the most bizarre, intriguing and influential books of the period. Whether read as an existential fable, psychological analysis, style manual, cultural critique or social satire, the novel remains as audacious and original today as when first published.

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Verlag
Dedalus Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1903517656
ISBN 13 
9781903517659
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Anzahl der Seiten
252
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