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À rebours
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À rebours is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an ari
Frontispiece of the first edition where "in collaboration" with the publisher Charpentier one can discern, among others, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant
Frontispiece of the first edition where "in collaboration" with the publisher Charpentier one can discern, among others, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Henry Cérard, Paul Alexis.
J.-K. Huysmans (1848–1907)
J.-K. Huysmans (1848–1907)
Des Esseintes in his study, by Arthur Zaidenberg (Against the Grain, New York, Illustrated Editions, 1931)
Des Esseintes in his study, by Arthur Zaidenberg (Against the Grain, New York, Illustrated Editions, 1931)
Title page of the 1926 first complete English translation with the caption "the book that Dorian Gray loved and that inspired Oscar Wilde".
Title page of the 1926 first complete English translation with the caption "the book that Dorian Gray loved and that inspired Oscar Wilde".
Decadent movement
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The Decadent movement was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov