Against Nature
"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.
Dark & BroodingPhilosophy & Big IdeasThought-ProvokingMelancholic & NostalgicThe Search for Aesthetic PerfectionIsolation and AlienationThe Futility of Artistic PursuitThe Critique of Modern Society
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