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Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and d...Read more
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| Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise). | |
| Key Features | |
| Author(s) | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Date of Publication | 01/05/2003 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-10 | 0140447636 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780140447637 |
| Genre | General & Literary Fiction |
| Publication Data | |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Country of Publication | United Kingdom |
| Imprint | Penguin Classics |
| Content Note | notes, chronology, further reading |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 213 g |
| Width | 129 mm |
| Height | 198 mm |
| Spine | 17 mm |
| Pagination | 288 |
| Credits | |
| Translated by | Patrick McGuinness, Robert Baldick |
| Introduction by | Patrick McGuinness |
| Editorial Details | |
| Format Details | B-format paperback |
| Description | |
| Author Biography | Born in Paris in 1848 and acknowledged as a principal architect of the fin-de-siecle imagination, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours (1884) and La-Bas (1891). Huysmans died in 1907. Robert Baldick (d.1972) translated widely from the French and wrote a biography of Huysmans. Patrick McGuinness is a Fellow and Tutor in French at St Anne's College, Oxford, and editor of Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siecle (Exeter UP, 2000). |
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