An edition of À rebours
(1900)
A rebours
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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"A rebours" is a novel by a French writer (translated: "Against the forward direction"). All the novel is concentrate in one eccentric character and it's inner life: Jean des Esseintes. This upper-class antihero is an aesthete who loath his contemporaries and lives retreated in his once splendid and rich home, where he collects objects of art, reads and comments his readings.
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Romans (teksten), Aesthetics, decadent, Fiction, Fantasy, Aesthetics in fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, French fiction, Gifted children, Education, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Aesthetics--fiction, Pq2309.h4 a6213 2003, 843.8Places
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