Huysmans' Bibel der Dekadenz mit ihren Endzeit-Visionen von unerreichter Dichte und Farbkraft in der brillanten Übersetzung von Brigitta Restorff. §

Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel and narrative almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes. Des Esseintes, is a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments. Charles-Marie-Georges was a French novelist who published his...

Gegen den Strich (Alternativtitel: Gegen alle oder Wider die Natur; Originaltitel: À rebours) ist das bekannteste Werk des französischen Autors Joris-Karl Huysmans.