I will not repeat what has been said in the other reviews of the literature of the nineteenth and trends. I will not be interested myself at the bottom of the structure, but only to its shape. Huysmans, style! Huysmans, shape! Huysmans, the master of the senses! It is through "A Rebours" Huysmans is the best proof of its culture and quality of prose. What might be perceived by some as a simple exercise in bombastic and vain style will ultimately recognized by all as an integral sensual pleasure. Wearing a keen sense of the description and detail, Huysmans mania language and lexical fields relating to the five senses with incredible dexterity and precision, the word always falling just! In this book, the words turn into a festival of colors, light effects, sound and sound effects, textures, tastes ... In general way, the vocabulary used is based on the spelling of words or seductive voice, whose exotic looks out of a mysterious French and forgotten sinful, vergus, RIBOTTE, rubefacient, mustard plaster, cauteuleux, soothing, to name a few tiny examples. "A Countdown" is a book that feels, shining, which makes your mouth, which tastes ... Definitely one of the works of French prose which is the richest, most controlled, most beautiful and just.
