Rebours

? rebours (French pronunciation: 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. ? 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.

• • Author: Huysmans Joris-Karl, Mybook
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Aug 11, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 188 pages
• • Language: French
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1974466515
• • ISBN-13: 9781974466511