Against Nature - Brossura

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192823671 ISBN 13: 9780192823670

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Riassunto

`It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high taste, he offers Huysmans's readers a treasure trove of cultural delights which anticipates many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarmé and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by indispensable notes which enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Nicholas White is Lecturer in French at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Product Description:

Book by Huysmans JorisKarl

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0192823671
• ISBN 13: 9780192823670
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: White Nicholas