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A rebours (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. A 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."

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  • ISBN-13: 9781534857520
  • ISBN-10: 1534857524
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: June 2016
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.37 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.52 pounds
  • Page Count: 172

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