Against the Grain: A Rebours
- ISBN-10
- 1514820293
- ISBN-13
- 9781514820292
- Series
- Against the Grain
- Pages
- 100
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-04
- Author
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Description
À rebours ( translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) (1884) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. À rebours contains many themes that became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from Naturalism and became the ultimate example of "decadent" literature.
