À rebours

1884 · Book

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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À rebours is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Duke Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. 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. The narrative is almost entirely a catalogue of the neurotic Des Esseintes's aesthetic tastes, musings on literature, painting, and religion, and hyperaesthetic sensory experiences.

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Type: Book
Release date: January 1, 1884
Created by: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Countries: France