Rupert Owen reviewed A rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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5 stars
The finest literary ornament ever to be crafted.
French language
Published Jan. 24, 1978 by Garnier-Flammarion.
A rebours
5 stars
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"A rebours" is a novel by a French writer (translated: "Against the forward direction"). All the novel is concentrate in one eccentric character and it's inner life: Jean des Esseintes. This upper-class antihero is an aesthete who loath his contemporaries and lives retreated in his once splendid and rich home, where he collects objects of art, reads and comments his readings.