Against Nature: A New Translation of 'a Rebours' (Penguin Classics)

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Des Esseintes cares little for classic French authors like Rabelais, Molière, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, preferring the works of Bourdaloue, Bossuet, Nicole, and Pascal.

That's why they don’t want to look like other people, or listen to their music, they don’t want to be advertised to or pandered to. This is a remarkably smart copy, notably uncommon in such good condition and in the rare dust jacket.Joris-Karl Huysmans aveva gli elementi giusti per attrarmi con il suo romanzo: stima reciproca con Baudelaire, che in quel periodo della vita era uno dei miei idoli letterari – capacità di condensare in queste pagine, quasi a mo’ di manifesto, l’essenza del decadentismo. Paris’den ve Paris yaşamından kaçtıkça sığınağı çok da adlandıramadığı din ve din refaranslı eserlerden bulmaya başlar, Salome’a ilgisi kösnül bel kıvırmalarının felaketleriyle ilgilidir. 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. He resolves to withdraw to a specially designed house in the country where he will live a life of contemplation, as far removed from reality as he can arrange.

Barbaric in its profusion, violent in its emphasis, wearying in its splendor, it is – especially in regard to things seen – extraordinarily expressive, with all the shades of a painter's palette. Commemorative plaque in 31 rue Saint-Placide, Paris, 6e A caricature of Huysmans, by Félix Vallotton, c.

It is a slightly chaotic and wonderfully languid form of study, interlaced with philosophical food for thought. Ogni capitolo diventa occasione per riassumere particolari argomenti del passato, dall’arte delle gemme, dei profumi, dei fiori, di musica, canto, eccetera.

Des Esseintes scioglie in bocca confetti contenenti una sostanza che simula l’essenza femminile, sceglie la tappezzeria in base al colore che assume sotto la luce artificiale non quella naturale del sole, fa dorare il carapace della sua tartaruga per farlo amalgamare al colore del tappeto sul quale vuole tenerla… E via andare con amenità eccentriche del genere. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Yani demem o ki, ben bu kitabı bir daha okumam, Tahsin Yücel çevirisinden kesseler okumam ama kitap da kitaptı ha!

I always recommend this short read to anyone wanting to understand the weird, dystopic side of the late 19th-century Symbolist movement. Soylu sınıfın çöküşünün miladı kapitalist üretim ilişkileri olsa da bu çöküş “ erkeklerin dişileşimi gittikçe daha bir belirginleşmişti” ile açıklanır. In one of the more amusing passages, Des Esseintes, after reading the novels of Dickens, decides to take a trip to England. After his mother quickly remarried, Huysmans resented his stepfather, Jules Og, a Protestant who was part-owner of a Parisian book-bindery.

Perhaps it is reading about a lover of the senses and literature and all things aesthetic who has the money and resources to create his very own virtual reality. The novels are also noteworthy for their encyclopedic documentation, ranging from the catalogue of decadent Latin authors in À rebours to the discussion of the symbiology of Christian architecture in La cathédrale.

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