Joris-Karl Huysmans

Published in 1884, Against Nature (À rebours) concerns the attempts of its cultured and neurotic anti-hero, Des Esseintes, to escape contemporary Parisian life. At his rural retreat he is able to indulge his particular artistic tastes as he muses on a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life...

“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the Bible of Decadence. Accurate descriptions, both, of this...

Durtal, escritor marcado por el hastío y la obsesión histórica, se sumerge en el estudio del satanismo medieval mientras recorre un París donde lo oculto parece latir bajo la superficie cotidiana. Entre documentos, conversaciones inquietantes y...