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The Satyricon
by Petronius (60)
★3.88(20)
As in 'a rebours joris', this work depicts the decadent and often grotesque aspects of a declining civilization.
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a rebours joris
by karl huysmans (1884)
★3.50(24 ratings)
"A rebours" is a novel by a French writer (translated: "Against the forward direction"). All the novel is concentrate in one eccentric character and it's inner life: Jean des Esseintes. This upper-class antihero is an aesthete who loath his contemporaries and lives retreated in his once splendid and rich home, where he collects objects of art, reads and comments his readings.
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Les Diaboliques
by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1874)
★4.00(3)
Echoing the dark sensuality of 'a rebours joris', these stories explore forbidden desires and moral corruption.
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The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)
★3.62(30)
Like 'a rebours joris', this novel engages with morbid psychology and a descent into the extreme.
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