À rebours

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title: À rebours
text: À rebours is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. The narrative is almost entirely a catalogue of the neurotic Des Esseintes's aesthetic tastes, musings on literature, painting, and religion, and hypera
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description: 1884 book by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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date created: 2005-06-15T11:03:10Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T00:21:16Z
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