Son impossible souhait : trouver un esprit "pointu et chantourné tel que le sien", visant comme lui, une "studieuse décrépitude".

Evil Stole My Faith: Courtesy of the pessimism of Schopenhauer, des Esseintes rejects belief in God for this reason, proclaiming: "If a God has made this world, I would not like to be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart." Huysmans would later retract this statement in a preface reflecting on the book twenty years after its publication.

Chapter 3

public Wi-Fi - this extends to the majority of our public spaces including the Reading Rooms, as well as our study desks and galleries at St Pancras (you won't require a login) A dense drug trip. This celebrated work (1884) offers sensual and philosophic ruminations. There's no story. Each chapter has a theme: art, religion, literature, society, etc. Huysmans lauds painters Aristocrats Are Evil: The novel begins with a description of portraits of some of des Esseintes' ancestors, one of whom inhabited a Decadent Court and sounds very much like this. Des Esseintes himself is something of an aversion. Nasuprot je diskurs o piščevim nenaklonostima prema određenim piscima ali istovremeno i veliko apologetsko raspoloženje prema pjesnicima i piscima poput Flobera, Poa i Bodlera itd. Zatim je to kritika tendencije modernizovane umjetnosti, društvena antipatija, izvođenje egzibicija sa cvijećem stvarajući samo njemu znane mirise, putovanja itd. Junak ove knjige podsjeća na Manovog Hansa Kastorpa. Bolešljiv, sklon dokolici i neumoljivim hobijima, izolovan od svijeta, eksperimentalan u svom naumu. Osjetno je piščevo saznanje iz medicine, dragog kamenja, botanike, umjetnosti i srednjeg vijeka te čovjeka sa svojim psihološkim svojstvima i bolestima. Čime će se kroz lik Dezesenta i baviti u ovoj knjizi. Kod Uismansa nema fantaziranja već odanost prema onome što je Tvorac već uspostavio. On crpi materiju iz stvarnosti i bogati je svojim riječima, držeći je u svojoj arhetipskoj formi. Daje joj boju, zvuk i jednu egzotičnu evokaciju. Naročito se to vidi kod flore. Ono što su boje kod slikara, to su riječi kod Uismansa. François, the novel’s protagonist, considers Huysmans his B.F.F. “Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him,” François tells us, in the book’s opening line. He is an academic who specializes in Huysmans; other than his favorite author, he has no close relationships at all. He’s so distant from his parents that they only enter his thoughts at their deaths; he attends neither of their funerals.

But most of the novel is really devoted to des Esseintes rifling through his books and his condemnation of most of them, starting with books in Latin, religious texts of all kinds, and working slowly through many now obscure authors to the Symbolists and the Decadents of his era. Huysmans corresponded with many of the authors his hero cites, but as the editors make clear, most of his choices of supreme art have not withstood the test of time, Baudelaire and Poe being exceptions. Furthermore, des Esseintes wallows in the morbid, the grotesque and skims along the surface of sadistic voyeurism. In a word, he is not a likeable character, in addition to being insufferable. Our Family Station in St Pancras is open from 10.00-12.00 every Friday and we're continuing to welcome schools, as well as families and adult learners to our courses and access events. All our in-person and livestreamed events are going ahead. Other services Jean Floressas Des Esseintes inizia a vestirsi dai calzini e ne sceglie un paio color “foglia secca”. Dice al domestico cheHe [Baudelaire] had revealed the morbid psychology of a mind that has reached the autumn of its experiences, had described the symptoms of a soul conscripted by suffering and licensed by spleen, had exposed the growing decay of feeling after the enthusiasm and belief of youth have evaporated ... " Europeans Are Kinky: Apart from some major-league womanising in his younger days, which ultimately bored him and turned him towards an aesthetic lifestyle, des Esseintes at one point seduces a female circus acrobat and also a woman who turns him on by using her skills as a professional ventriloquist to pretend that her husband is about to break in on them.

Only, Huysmans leaves us with a scintilla of doubt as to whether these very books are not the cure, but a cause, of Des E's dissolute condition.Rifiuterebbe anche la cultura borghese se ritenesse che la borghesia fosse in grado di esprimere cultura. Death by Origin Story: By the time the main action of A Rebours has started, both his parents have died. To judge by what's said of them, they played little role in his life whilst alive.