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AGAINST NATURE
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| By: |
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Nicholas White (Editor), Margaret Mauldon (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199555117 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199555116 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 July, 2009 |
| Series: |
Oxford World's Classics |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-siecle novel anticipating many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by a critically up-to-date introduction and indispensable notes which enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work. |
| Synopsis: |
'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high taste, he offers Huysmans's readers a treasure trove of cultural delights which anticipates many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by indispensable notes which enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation 1999. |
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