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Des esseintes pronunciation.
Huysmans’ Against Natureis a novel about one man (the rich but jaded aristocrat Des Esseintes) and the isolated life he crafts for himself – a life governed by aesthetic considerations and the desire to subvert, and even supersede, nature.
Des esseintes meaning A rebours english pdf Des esseintes pronunciation A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Huysmans' Against Nature is a novel about one man (the rich but jaded aristocrat Des Esseintes) and the isolated life he crafts for himself.
Like many English readers, my first exposure to the novel was in an editor’s note to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890) - À Reboursis widely believed to be the novel which ‘poisons’ Dorian’s mind.
Des esseintes meaning
But the text is definitely worthy of attention in its own right (and not just in considering Decadence and the Fin de Siecle).
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For general readers: The opposite of a lot of the Victorian literature I like and write on, Against Nature is low on plot and deals with only one real character.
This is a novel about the workings of someone’s mind – someone who probably isn’t that likable or relatable. I don’t find this a problem as such (tho
