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  • "Sick soul of infinity in a society that believes not only finite things" Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly  

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    Here, we follow a certain misanthropy of Esseintes, cloistered in an apartment outside of Paris, between his eccentricities, his thoughts, his dreams and his experiments, to reflect on the ancient and modern art, precious stones, the botany, spiritua
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  • Aesthetics reactionary  

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    No need to rehash everything that has been said about the book and his writing. If it is discovered Huysmans, the book leaves no one indifferent and that feels a little bit reactionary, this work, though dating back over a century, can serve as an ou
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  • Magic 42  

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    a literary jewel, which is continuously pursues the sweet spell the epithet always fair. Permeated by romanticism, this book is a wonderful contribution to the decline. Art critic, mystical reflection and introspection, Des Esseinte gives us a vision
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  • After Dorian Gray  

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    I thoroughly enjoyed Dorian Gray. So when I finally learned that this famous book untitled offered by Lord Henry and that it was secretly reads: A Rebours by Huysmans I did not hesitate to buy it. I really wanted to know what Oscar Wilde had scored a
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  • Malay late XIX  

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    An impeccably written test. The portrait (too) cerebral and sophisticated refined and tormented misanthrope, through the catalog (sometimes encyclopedic) tastes and preferences. To emphasize the amazing ability to judge Huysmans just his contemporari
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  • Reflecting on the arts.  

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    The theme of the novel is not the biography of the character that is decadent Des Esseintes: rich man, having experienced all states of lust and decides to isolate itself from the world to recreate an artificial world in his own house in order to con
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  • An exquisite pleasure for the senses!  

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    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
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