À rebours

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁəbuʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Duke Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete.

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