- character: Jean des
Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive,
ailing aesthete. The last
scion of an
aristocratic family, Des
Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century...
- aesthete, des
Esseintes, and
decisively broke from Naturalism. It was seen as an
example of "decadent" literature. The
description of des
Esseintes' "alluring...
- and dandy. He is
reputed to have been the
inspiration both for Jean des
Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À
rebours (1884) and, most famously, for the Baron...
-
Tristan Corbière,
Theodore Hannon and Stéphane Mallarmé. His
character Des
Esseintes hailed these writers for
their creativity and
their craftsmanship, suggesting...
-
Luiken and his son
Caspar (Caspaares). Joris-Karl Huysmans' anti-hero Des
Esseintes in À
rebours was an
admirer of Luyken's
engravings and had
prints from...
- Les
Esseintes (French pronunciation: [le.z‿ɛsɛ̃t]; Occitan: Las Essentas) is a
commune in the
Gironde department in
southwestern France.
Communes of the...
- 2014.
Retrieved 8
February 2023. Redon,
Odilon (21
January 2018). "Des
Esseintes,
Frontispiece for A
Rebours by J.K. Huysmans". The Art
Institute of Chicago...
- her as
being inscrutable: "the veil
always remains." Huysmans' hero Des
Esseintes characterizes her as a "weird and
superhuman figure he had
dreamed of...
-
extensively in the
latter section of Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours,
where Des
Esseintes describes his fervour-infused
enthusiasm for the poet: "These were Mallarmé's...
- novel, in
which very
little happens,
catalogues the
psychology of Des
Esseintes, an eccentric,
reclusive antihero.
Oscar Wilde was
influenced by the novel...
