Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans Jeske van der Velden his employer's beautiful daughters

his employer's beautiful daughters

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Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans Jeske van der Velden his employer's beautiful daughtersA wildly original fin de sicle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes and a kaleidoscope of