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Liked It “This is a book I would like to read again just now. But I do not have a copy of it. I remember it made a tremendous impact on me when I first read it 33 years ago as a young man who was very interested in literature and the decadent life. What impressed in this book, just as in La Bas, which I...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Interesting.”
Katy B wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“a little strange”
Marije P wrote this review Friday, November 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This is a book I would like to read again just now. But I do not have a copy of it. I remember it made a tremendous impact on me when I first read it 33 years ago as a young man who was very interested in literature and the decadent life. What impressed in this book, just as in La Bas, which I just finished reading, was Huysmans preoccupation with the Catholic religion and by means of it with notions of God, good and evil. This book taught me about the extremes of connoisseurship and the descent into silence once one has experienced too much.”
elf_asura wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“With La Bas Huysmans best”
Scott D wrote this review Thursday, April 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
2 of 2 members found this review helpful“One of the strangest books ever written, this is the quintessential novel of aestheticism and decadence, even moreso than "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Leave it to the French! Des Esseintes has a certain distant lineage to the Marquis De Sade, and his influence stretches forward to Wilde, aspects of Proust and even, as one Amazon reviewer has astutely observed, to Bret Easton Ellis' revolting "American Psycho." ”
Lord Manleigh wrote this review Saturday, February 2 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“the mal du siecle spine collections,
mundivagant wrote this review Thursday, December 27 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
poisonous flower gardens, faux funereal
feasts, white velvet waistcoasts, odd
love affairs, strange diets & hallucinations
of the sense of smell of an anaemic
eccentric anchorite”
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