Published 1959
by Penguin Books in Harmondsworth, Eng, Baltimore .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | J.-K. Huysmans ; a new translation of À rebours by Robert Baldrick. |
| Series | The Penguin classics ; L86 |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 220 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 220 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL18440326M |
| ISBN 10 | 0140440860 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 6036547 |
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders Buy a cheap copy of Against Nature book by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story Free shipping over $ Against Nature book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Against Nature examines the history of the concept of nature in the traditi Free download or read online Against Nature pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Joris-Karl Huysmans. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this cultural, france story are Jean Des Esseintes,.
Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultural delights and anticipates many aspects of twentieth century :// Sliding vertiginously between the beautiful and divine, Against Nature is a brilliant defense of artifice and cultural alchemy. Read more. 2 people found this helpful. Helpful. Comment Report abuse. James J. Omeara. out of 5 stars This is the one to get! Reviewed in the United States on Aug › Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; 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 › Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics. Against Nature, in the words of the author, exploded 'like a meteorite' and has enjoyed a cult following to this day. This revised edition of Robert Baldick's lucid translation features a new introduction and a chronology, and reproduces Huysmans's original preface as well as a selection of reviews from writers including Mallarmé, Zola › Fiction › Classics.
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