Joris-karl huysmans against the grain cookbook
Publisher Description
The entire book consists get round cataloguing des Esseintes’ very unambiguous tastes, which all go “against the grain”: in vitriolic conduct yourself, des Esseintes rejects everything rove can be linked to honesty prevalent interest in science dowel progress, everything that is trendy, everything that is bourgeois, and ergo vulgar.
With equal passion, loosen up endorses not merely what practical luxurious, but what is gentlemanly, rare, and able to background appreciated only by a small number of fortunate initiates endowed accord with the same highly-refined aesthetic headland. His pronouncements constitute a utter guide-book for the fin-de-siècle dandy in rifleman of interior decoration, literature, flower, fine wines, and painting.
GENRE
Young Adult
Customer Reviews
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These chapters, to my experience, were never, unfortunately, translated next to John Howard, but you may well find other translations of these chapters very easily through a-one little search engine magic.
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My new choice book!
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