He doesn't get any better through the course of the book; he is as capable of dwelling on the most beautiful of conjectures in full possession of his educated faculties, as he is of condemning the smallest aspect of life with all the spite and bigotry a human could possibly muster. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Huysmans's next novel, En rade, an unromantic account of a summer spent in the country, did not sell as well as its predecessor. And here is the reaction of Des Esseintes when forced to encounter others on the street, “The very sight of certain faces made him suffer. In his preface for the 1903 publication of the novel, Huysmans wrote that he had the idea to portray a man "soaring upwards into dream, seeking refuge in illusions of extravagant fantasy, living alone, far from his century, among memories of more congenial times, of less base surroundings .

However alone and unobserved he may be, his likes and dislikes are defined by an outside culture which he claims to have rejected, but which seems to rule his every thought. Anti-hero Jean Des Esseintes despises the bourgeois society he lives in and withdraws into the aesthetic and artistic ideals that he has created.We shame other people, we guilt them, we tease them, we make suggestions, we tell them little infectious phrases that are supposed to be helpful. As brilliant Nietzsche scholar Rick Roderick pointed out, advertisement is the opposite of psychotherapy.

Des Esseintes is the false iconoclast, the man who is obsessed with being different for its own sake, but who does not know himself. Annoiato, ma soprattutto disgustato dal mondo che lo circonda, popolato di superficiali e stupidi, rifiuta la città e la società borghese che l’ha creata. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind to rear cover, top edge orange.

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