Against nature / Joris-Karl Huysmans ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nicholas White.

By:

Huysmans, J. -K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Oxford world's classicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]Description: xxxiv, 227 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780199555116 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Rebours. English

Subject(s):

Aesthetics -- Fiction

DDC classification:

843.8 HUY 22

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Summary: Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-siècle novel anticipating many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarmé and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by a critically up-to-date introduction and indispensable notes which enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work. The most up-to-date translation of this landmark novel Winner of the Scott Moncrieff prize for translation 1999

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	843.8 HUY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K3050

This ed. of this translation originally published: 1998.
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Rs.549/-

Includes bibliographical references.

Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-siècle novel anticipating many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarmé and Poe. This new translation is supplemented by a critically up-to-date introduction and indispensable notes which enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work.

The most up-to-date translation of this landmark novel
Winner of the Scott Moncrieff prize for translation 1999

Translated from the French.

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