Against nature
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Author
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
- Open LibraryOL3319473M
- ISBN-100140447636
- OCLC Control Number52357782
- OCLC Control Numberagainstnature0000huys
- Library of Congress Control Number2004270858
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- Goodreads210255
- LibraryThing67888
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.
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- Penguin classics
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