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Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Against the grain, novel by joriskarl huysmans, published in french as a rebours in it was also translated into english as against nature. Mit dem 1884 erschienenen roman brach huysmans endgultig mit dem. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of huysmans cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the bible of decadence.
Download the ebook against the grain joriskarl huysmans in pdf or epub format and read it directly on your mobile phone, computer or any device. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoiserich perfumes, and a kaleidoscope of sensual. Jul 01, 2019 project gutenberg 58, free ebooks 6 by j. Having lived an extremely decadent life, des esseintes finds himself disgusted with human society and retreats to a house in the. Its easy to link to paragraphs in the full text archive if this page contains some material that you want to link to but you dont want your visitors to have to scroll down the whole page just hover your mouse over the relevent paragraph and click the bookmark icon that appears to the left of it. See all 77 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Against the grain, novel by joriskarl huysmans, published in french as a rebours in 1884. Against the grain paperback november 1, 2006 by joriskarl huysmans author 3. The last scion of an aristocratic family, des esseintes loathes nineteenth century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal.
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