by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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This is a brilliant book. Not only is it interesting in and of itself, containing some magnificent writing, but it presents an original and fundamental analysis of the entire movement away from Naturalism (Huysmans began as a disciple of Zola) and into Symbolism (Mallarmé), Decadence, and (hence) in...
Remember the little yellow book in The Picture of Dorian Gray? This is it. It's nothing but pure fin de siècle decadence, a symbolist piece of jewellery. It focuses solely on Jean Des Esseintes - the ultimate dandy - and his seclusion from the outside world, loathing anything that has to do with the...
these pictures in my head are so beautiful. my senses are overwhelmed. and yet everything is sad somehow.
I loved it. I hated it. It glowed in my little bookbag.It smelled of Shalimar, ether and manure.This cover is a lovely shade of jaundice, but any yellow would do.I suggest anyone who picks up A Rebours perseveres.If you start reading it and don't finish, it brings bad luck.
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