Joris-Karl Huysmans
French novelist and critic (1848–1907), associated with the Decadent movement and known for À rebours (Against the Grain); began in Naturalism and later converted to Catholicism, producing influential religious and Symbolist works.
Books
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1. A Contrapelo
A wealthy, reclusive aesthete withdraws from modern society to a secluded home where he designs elaborate sensory experiences—curated books, exotic art, unusual perfumes and music—and attempts to live entirely by taste and imagination; his meticulous experiments in artifice and isolation expose both the intoxicating pleasures and the spiritual emptiness of extreme decadence, culminating in physical decline and a painful recognition of the limits of aesthetic escape.