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A Rebours / Le Drageoir Aux Epices (French Edition)
A Rebours / Le Drageoir Aux Epices - French Edition Author:J. K. Huysmans Original French text of Against the Grain and A Dish of Spices. — The novel À Rebours is considered a manifesto of the decadent spirit. Jean des Esseintes is a sickly, esthete and eccentric antihero, who delivers the catalog of his likes and dislikes. Le Drageoir aux Épice... more »s is a collection of poems, originally self-published in 1874, in which homage is paid to Dutch and Flemish painters and to the poetry of Villon. « less