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Against Nature

J.K. Huysmans

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1884
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 220

A jaded aristocrat retreats alone to a house outside Paris and tries to replace the natural world with pure artifice, perfumes, jewelled tortoises, hothouse flowers, until his ruined nerves force him back into the society he despises.

Nature has had her day;
Against Nature, J.K. Huysmans

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