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The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the decision to give his giant pet tortoise a jewel-encrusted shell...
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin
Release dateMay 1, 2003
ISBN9780141906607
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans est un écrivain et critique d'art français, né le 5 février 1848 à Paris et mort le 12 mai 1907. "À rebours" est un roman paru en 1884.
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