Joris karl huysmans bookshelf

Against Nature is written by Joris-Karl Huysmans and published by OUP Oxford.

Huysmans' decadent novel is as atmospheric as I remembered it.

It was a novel without a plot and with only one character, being, indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian.

Against the Grain's 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 wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature contains only one character.

It was a novel without a plot and with only one character, being, indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian.!

Bibliography

There have been so many books, essays and articles written about Huysmans and his work that it is almost impossible to list every one.

The sections below include comprehensive lists of the most important.

Works by J.-K. Huysmans in French, and translated into English, Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch.

A chronological list of the various editions of Huysmans’ work, including posthumous publications.

Correspondence

Although no complete correspondence has yet been published (an edition is currently being planned), a number of collections of letters to individual recipients have appeared.

Criticism in English,French,German, and Italian.

A list of critical works on Huysmans’ work published in book form, together with a list of essays and articles that have appeared in periodicals and newspapers.

Bulletin de la Société J.-K.

Huysmans

A list of articles contributed to the annual bulletin of t