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J.K. Huysmans
A rebours

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This is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The novel centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes. He is an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete and the last representative of an aristocratic family. Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world he created himself.

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Language French ● Format EPUB ● Pages 1751 ● ISBN 4066339559158 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Publisher e-artnow ● City Prague ● Country CZ ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9253774 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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