description: Against Nature J. K. Huysmans Against Nature" is one of the great fictions of the fin de siecle" and a virtual text book for what the critics of the time called decadent literature. The victim of over-wrought nerves, of neuralgia and dyspepia, Des Esssintes retires for a season from Paris to the solitude of his country house at Fontennay, to soothe his fantasy and to gratify his complex aesthetic sensations.
language: English
title: Against Nature
titlecomplete: Against Nature
characters: Jean Des Esseintes
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Art, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 13078
places: France, Fontenay-aux-Roses
publisher: Green Integer Books