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Symbolism's style of the static and hieratic adapted less well to narrative fiction than it did to poetry. Joris-Karl Huysmans' 1884 novel "À rebours" (English title: "Against Nature" or "Against the Grain") explored many themes that became associated with the symbolist aesthetic. This novel, in which very little happens, catalogues the psychology of Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive antihero. Oscar Wilde was influenced by the novel as he wrote "Salome", and Huysman's book appears in "The Picture of Dorian Gray": the titular character becomes corrupted after reading the book.