Contributions

  • Baldick, Robert. - Contributor
  • McGuinness, Patrick. - Contributor

Publication

2003 - Penguin Books, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

60,500 words, Guess

Page Count

242 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC843/.8
  • LCCPQ2309.H4 A6213 2003

Description

"A rebours" is a novel by a French writer (translated: "Against the forward direction"). All the novel is concentrate in one eccentric character and it's inner life: Jean des Esseintes. This upper-class antihero is an aesthete who loath his contemporaries and lives retreated in his once splendid and rich home, where he collects objects of art, reads and comments his readings.

Subjects

Places

Somewhere near Paris

People

Fictional character: Jean des Esseintes

Series Statement

  • Penguin classics

Other Editions

  • Against naturePenguin Books2003-01-01
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