Against Nature

Author: J.-K. Huysmans

Translator: Brendan King   Cover illustration: Egon Shiele  

Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-siècle novel anticipating many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarmé and Poe.

"It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say." As J.-K. Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other.