The book starts off beautifully, with a wonderful turn of phrase and a delightfully absurd main character. Description érudite et "dégoûtante" de la fin d'un Empire répondant à la fin de Siècle vécue par l'auteur : Puisque, par le temps qui court, il nexiste plus de substance saine, puisque le vin quon boit et que la liberté quon proclame, sont frelatés et dérisoires, puisquil faut enfin une singulière dose de bonne volonté pour croire que les classes dirigeantes sont respectables et que les classes domestiquées sont dignes dêtre soulagées ou plaintes, il ne me semble, conclut des Esseintes, ni plus ridicule ni plus fou, de demander à mon prochain une somme dillusion à peine équivalente à celle quil dépense dans des buts imbéciles chaque jour, pour figurer que la ville de Pantin est une Nice artificielle, une Menton factice. dandysme In those days, charming days without doubt, one could take more or less seriously such words as satanism and decadence. I decided not to push it any more. Please leave a review. Huysman’s prose is strong and elegant. Against the Grain (A Rebours), J.-K. Huysmans () In addition, in more than hhysman few passages–Des Esseintes scheme for making a murderer out of a street boy is the most remarkable example–Huysmans obliquely reveals a consciousness of the plight of the poor that suggests a world of Christian compassion and duty beyond all this preciousness. Que de richesses en ces lignes et quel courage. Somehow I never got tired of the long listings of things and I even plan to read some of the books commented by Des Esseintes.
The aborted trip to England was quite amusing. That was my feeling too. Against Nature: A Rebours (Oxford World's Classics), Against Nature (A Rebours) (Penguin Classics), [(The Life of J.-K. Huysmans )] [Author: Robert Baldick] [Aug-2006], Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S. Unable to add item to List. Fils spirituel de René et de la génération du mal du siècle, il annonce à bie... Quel livre ! Zola confessed to what he called the bourgois concern about its crapping on the floor. translation on the
After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Un roman monologue, un roman confessions ? although I read more than half of it. So, yes, I need someone to defend the book to me, since either I didn’t “get it” or perhaps it just wasn’t to my taste…. He writes a lexicon of the objects that exist at the extreme limit of bourgeois desire/imagination. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2017, This is a book for an academic interested in the French decadence writing movement. they have attained the age of 65!) By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
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Unfortunately I did not get any closer to Des Esseintes. It is the sort of book that I would reccommend only to students of 19th century French literature and those with the money and inclination to live the life of a wealthy 19th century recluse. À travers le personnage de des Esseintes, Huysmans n'a pas seulement résumé, immortalisé les torpeurs, les langueurs, les névroses vénéneuses et perverses du siècle finissant. He lives in complete solitude, barely interrupted by a couple of silent servants. I sometimes wondered why or how it was interesting. No, they would never forgive me . Buried himself alive. However after the visit to the dentist and the Auguste Langlois chapter I thought the novel might get better. I happen to live in one the most crowded cities in the world, full of annoying people, and maybe that is why I have this fantasy. Ne faut-il pas désapprendre pour mieux créer ? Dragged from its tomb, and set walking on the earth in the shroud of a new language, it looks pitifully antiquated in the fresher, freer, Stendhalian air of the twentieth century, and one need but glance upon it to see how far we really have moved from the ‘eighties and ‘nineties. littérature Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto,
I don’t really remember what made me choose to start with The Virgin in the Garden and then read the sequel Still Life. I was flying in an airplane a few days ago where I was sure I would read “A Rebours” straight through. Some aspects of “A Rebours,” of Des Esseintes, reminded me…of me! Though not a great Wilde fan, I couldn't agree with him more on that point. I finished A Rebours about a week ago. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. I sympathize with Des Esseintes, perhaps with the decadents in general. I found mention of it online while trying to see how to spell Montesquieu. Would I recommend this book to my friends? version in the original French is now online
Please try again. Le monsieur salua, déposa, dans la salle à manger, sur le parquet de pitch-pin, son bouclier qui oscilla, se soulevant un peu, allongeant une tête serpentine de tortue qui, soudain effarée, rentra sous sa carapace. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 3/6/2003, 0:07:01. Indeed, as I reached the end of A Rebours that’s exactly what I was expecting. Books on the Making of the Modern Middle East – Rogan, McMeekin, Hardy, Wheatcroft, The Map and the Territory – Michel Houellebecq, The Nigger of the Narcissus – Joseph Conrad, Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr – E.T.A. |, 152 Let’s remember another book about a recluse, only this one is involuntarily isolated. His taste veers toward the obscure, the obscene, the grotesque and the morbid. ), The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (Signet Classics), The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Clothbound Classics), Dictionary of the Strange, Curious & Lovely. « Psychologie onirique, écriture automatique, monologues intérieurs, un roman dénué dintrigue et même daction, à un seul personnage et à quelques comparses : on trouve tout ça, dans En route » dit notre conférencier. This novel was one of the true gems that I encountered at that time. Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2003. Mr. Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a deserted island for many years. They enjoy: 1. Dover edition as a frontispiece. He was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours… More about Joris-Karl Huysmans It is a dictionary of late-19th century kitsch. So he sells a number of properties and buys a house in the countryside. They are as meaningless as life. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Et puisque le temps nous est compté, de braver les esprits pour revenir aux sources ou dépérir, à moins qu'un mode ancestral nous ait rivé, condamné moitié pensé déjà jusqu'à sa propre reddition.
Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Yes, I saw some of myself in Des Esseintes. Just as the decadents, the only possible solution for Existentialists is to commit suicide: if life does not mean anything at all, what the hell are you doing here contemplating this pathetic fact? What does he think of, looking down upon the rest of the world? Je sais que ce retrait volontaire le mène à une mort certaine, comme l'alertera son médecin, mais Des Esseintes est un esthète. Et, en sus, une petite tournée des églises de la Rive gauche, à Paris : Saint Séverin, St Sulpice, Ste Clotilde. Moreover, the chapter on the Latin poets of early Christianity may have suggested to Remy de Gourmont the studies that resulted in “Le Latin Mystique.” But the tendency that fashioned “A Rebours” has expired; the more modern mind has rolled over to new styles and new variations of outlook upon life; and the book, three-fourths or eight-ninths claptrap, is irrevocably dead. This is probably the seminal avante-garde novel. , One more thing I would like to say about this book. : Oscar Wilde, for instance, was much impressed by it and.
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