A Contrapelo by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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.
- Published
- 1884
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 150-200
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- A contrapelo
- Against Nature
- Against the Grain
- À rebours
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