A rebours French Edition Huysmans 9781540623041 Books
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La Bible de l'esprit décadent et de la "charogne" 1900. À travers le personnage de des Esseintes, Huysmans n'a pas seulement résumé, immortalisé les torpeurs, les langueurs, les névroses vénéneuses et perverses du siècle finissant. Des Esseintes est aussi un héros kierkegaardien, à la fois grotesque et pathétique, une des plus fortes figures de l'angoisse qu'ait laissées notre littérature.
A rebours French Edition Huysmans 9781540623041 Books
There are a few moments of real profundity here, really deeply felt rejection of the modern world and immersion in the senses as a means of bypassing the crudities of modernity. But there are also longeurs in the silliness of some of excursions into fields that Huysmans must have had some real experience in, but why any reader should be battered by the disquisition on late latin literature... really? I didn't have a sense of the fun of the thing until the jewel-encrusted tortoise made its appearance, and by the "substituting enemas for the unpleasantness of having to eat" towards the end, the joke was almost worn out. Still, the importance of the work might be oblique, in as much as it relates to Soumission/Houllebecq. Short, I don't regret having spent a little time with it.Product details
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A rebours French Edition Huysmans 9781540623041 Books Reviews
Beware this is an expurgated version. It doesn't say so until the last page. Evidently the translator thought the homosexually-tinged "racy" bits were not worth reading (though he had no trouble including the heterosexual racy bits). I prefer to read everything in a book, and decide for myself.
It really doesn't surprise me that this novel has been reviewed by only one person at this site. What a statement about the reading patterns of present-day culture! From my teens through my twenties, I snatched up every Penguin Classic I could find on the bookshelves in NYC and San Francisco. I guess I just came up in a different literary milieu. This novel was one of the true gems that I encountered at that time. This is probably the seminal avante-garde novel. It's hero, Des Esseintes, is basted on Absinthe (or hashish) half the time and his life is one prolongued hallucination. The author takes the reader so intricately into the main character's life, that we are living alongside him, absorbed in his decadence. We are invited to his parties (which rival Trimalchio's), are absorbed in his fantasies (which rival Fellini's)and basically are tripping with him in his unique and solipsistic universe. Oscar Wilde described this as the strangest work of fiction he had ever come across. Though not a great Wilde fan, I couldn't agree with him more on that point.
So many decadent themes. A great read.
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A classic "novel"--though re-reading it this time, I was struck by the genre-blending that goes on in the text. It is best known ( I suppose) as the book that corrupts Wilde's Dorian Gray, and so as a portrait of decadence. Through the experiences and reveries of its main character the author presents an anthology of sensations and opinions, readings of other texts, of art and music…… all sorts of subjects.
I read this book 20 years ago and still consider it one of my very favorites. It is so good to see that it is still in print. I'll just add a bit more to what the other reviewers at have said. This book was a favorite of Picasso, and it's easy to understand why. Huysmans was the ultimate modern artist, and had he not become a writer he would have assuredly become a painter. Des Esseintes decorates the shell of a living tortoise with jewels and colored glass so that the light, reflected off the roving gems accentuates the colors of the room adding continuous and subtle variation. Now that is a sense of color! His heighten senses go further to invent new art forms a perfume organ, for instance. Des Essentes is also a bit of a sadist. He conducts social experiments, turning innocent ordinary working class youths into criminals by cultivating within them a taste for luxury. By the way, if you can, try obtaining a copy of the book with Arthur Zaidenberg's illustrations; they are an exquisite addition. Huysmans other books are also worth reading, especially Down There (la-Bas), a book about 19th century French Satanism that nicely weaves stories about the extreme Medieval sadist, Gilles de Rais, whom Huysmans portrays as an aesthete much like Des Esseintes. Both books are gems.
Des Esseintes, the protagonist (and basically the only character) of this book, is a man of noble descent who has tried everything in life he has mingled with the frivolous and found them vulgar and empty-headed. He has lived among the intellectuals and found them petulant and arrogant. He is tired of life, especially in these (his) vulgar and superficial times. So he sells a number of properties and buys a house in the countryside. His idea is to reject everything that is "natural" and concentrate on art and artifice. He lives in complete solitude, barely interrupted by a couple of silent servants. He spends much time choosing the colors, the furniture and the pictures for his house. Along the book we are witnesses to his tastes in a number of realms, such as painting, literature, flowers, perfumes and music. Sometimes it seems to be just a long catalogue of sophisticated, rare and decadent pieces. This book is a big fantasy of reclusion, of elegancy, of sophistication. Give yourself some time and be an eccentric for a day. If you read it with a sense of humor, you'll find an enjoyable piece of French décadentisme, certainly on the periphery of the Western Canon, but representative of a way to view life.
Its atmosphere is very Gothic, gloomy, silent and full of beautiful things. The main character is a bit of a lunatic, but his bored and irritable personality has a touch of glamour. If you sometimes feel filled up with the world, if you sometimes fantasize about winning the lottery and then buying a big house full of the things you love, a place to retire and reject society and all its annoying and ugly characteristics, then you will find this book a very cool way of retiring from the world.
There are a few moments of real profundity here, really deeply felt rejection of the modern world and immersion in the senses as a means of bypassing the crudities of modernity. But there are also longeurs in the silliness of some of excursions into fields that Huysmans must have had some real experience in, but why any reader should be battered by the disquisition on late latin literature... really? I didn't have a sense of the fun of the thing until the jewel-encrusted tortoise made its appearance, and by the "substituting enemas for the unpleasantness of having to eat" towards the end, the joke was almost worn out. Still, the importance of the work might be oblique, in as much as it relates to Soumission/Houllebecq. Short, I don't regret having spent a little time with it.
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