À rebours (; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain ) ( 1884 ) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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Jean Joseph Camille Huysmans ( 26 May 1871 in Bilzen-23 February 1968 in Antwerp, born as Camiel Hansen ) was a Belgian politician.

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* Joris-Karl Huysmans ( 1848 – 1907 )-Lived in Fontenay in July 1881, living where he worked in reverse, with the hero of Esseintes lives Fontenay-aux-Roses.

* Bernard Bonnejean " Huysmans avant À Rebours: les fondements nécessaires d ' une quête en devenir ", in Le Mal dans l ' imaginaire français ( 1850 – 1950 ), éd.

* Camille Huysmans ( May 26, 1871-February 25, 1968 ), Prime Minister ( August 3, 1946-March 20, 1947 ); Mayor of Antwerp ( 1933 – 1946 ).

** Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author ( d. 1907 )

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

His father Godfried Huysmans was Dutch and a lithographer by trade.

Huysmans ' father died when the boy was eight years old.

After his mother quickly remarried, Huysmans resented his stepfather, Jules Og, a Protestant who was part-owner of a Parisian book-bindery.

The young Huysmans was called up to fight in the Franco-Prussian War, but was invalided out with dysentery.

In addition to his novels, Huysmans was known for his art criticism in L ' Art moderne ( 1883 ) and Certains ( 1889 ).

In 1905, Huysmans was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth.

Huysmans ' work was known for his idiosyncratic use of the French language, extensive vocabulary, detailed and sensuous descriptions, and biting, satirical wit.

Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur in 1892, for his work with the civil service.

In a decorated room within a grand residence, a draped ' cadaver ' rested on a plinth which was then ritually stabbed by an ' executioner ' while a ' service ' was read consisting of extracts from the French décadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans and le Marquis de Sade.

He was Foreign Minister again from September 1939 until August 1949 under the subsequent Prime Ministers Hubert Pierlot, Achille Van Acker and Camille Huysmans.

The characters in the novel have long discussions on the history of French Satanism up to their time, and eventually one of them is invited to participate in a Black Mass, the type of which Huysmans claimed was practised in Paris in those years.

And years later Huysmans would say, “ It was the best one that we ever crowned .”

The writers Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Paul Valéry, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, Jean Moréas, Gustave Kahn, Albert Samain, Jean Lorrain, Rémy de Gourmont, Pierre Louÿs, Tristan Corbière, Henri de Régnier, Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, Stuart Merrill, René Ghil, Saint-Pol Roux, Oscar-Vladislas de Milosz, the Belgians Albert Giraud, Emile Verhaeren, Georges Rodenbach and Maurice Maeterlinck and others have been called symbolists, although each author's personal literary project was unique.

Other poets from this period include: Paul Valéry, Max Jacob ( a key member of the group around Apollinaire ), Pierre Jean Jouve ( a follower of Romain Rolland's " Unanism "), Valery Larbaud ( a translator of Whitman and friend to Joyce ), Victor Segalen ( friend to Huysmans and Claudel ), Léon-Paul Fargue ( who studied with Stéphane Mallarmé and was close to Valéry and Larbaud ).

In a letter of November 1882, Huysmans told Émile Zola, the leader of the Naturalist school of fiction, that he was changing his style of writing and had embarked on a " wild and gloomy fantasy ".

The character of Des Esseintes is partly based on Huysmans himself, and the two share many of the same tastes, although Huysmans, on his modest civil-service salary, was hardly able to indulge them to the same extent as his upper-class hero.

' He went away ,' records Montesquiou, ' in a state of silent exaltation [...] I do not doubt therefore that it was in the most admiring, sympathetic and sincere good faith that he retailed to Huysmans what he had seen during the few moments he spent in Ali-Baba's Cave.

Huysmans initially tried to placate him by claiming the book was still in the Naturalist style and that Des Esseintes's opinions and tastes were not his own.

However, when they met in July, Zola told Huysmans that the book had been a " terrible blow to Naturalism " and accused him of " leading the school astray " and " burning boats with such a book ", claiming that " no type of literature was possible in this genre, exhausted by a single volume ".

Dorian's " poisonous French novel " that leads to his downfall is believed to be Joris-Karl Huysmans ' novel À rebours.

Huysmans ' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition.

For thirty-two years, Huysmans worked as a civil servant for the French Ministry of the Interior, a job he found tedious.

* Joris-Karl Huysmans, a French novelist

* 19th century: Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote the classic novel of French Satanism, Là-Bas ( 1891 ).

The actual text which Huysmans ' satanic " priest " recites, however, is nothing more than a long diatribe in French, praising Satan as the god of reason and the opponent of Christianity.

The Church of Satan's two Black Masses also use the French text of the Black Mass in Huysmans ' Là-Bas to a great extent.

* Downstream ( novella ) by French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans

* À rebours, a French novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Matoš is the central figure of Croatian modernism ( moderna ), a radical change in Croatian literature under European influences, as it quickly absorbed contemporary tendencies and styles such as Symbolism, modernism or impressionism, relying on French literary heritage from Baudelaire to Mallarmé, Barres and Huysmans.