This is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The novel centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes. He is an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete and the last representative of an aristocratic family. Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world he created himself.
This is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The novel centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes. He is an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete and the last representative of an aristocratic family. Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world he created himself.
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Tegen de keer
En route
Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam
The Oblate : L' Oblat
A rebours : Édition enrichie. Roman décadent fin-de-siècle : retraite, esthétisme et critique de la bourgeoisie à travers l'anti-héros Des Esseintes
En ménage : Édition enrichie.
The Cathedral : Enriched edition.
Certain Artists : Certains
Modern Art
DRIFTING : A vau-l'eau
Against the Grain