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    À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans...
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    Joris-Karl Huysmans (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from December 2018)
    famous for the novel À rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain and as Against Nature). He supported himself by way of a 30-year career in...
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    Gustave Moreau. The novel À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans includes these fevered imaginings about an image of Salome in a Moreau painting: No longer...
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    almost [was], Huysmans's À rebours ... to a correspondent, he wrote that he had played a "fantastic variation" upon À rebours, and someday must write it...
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    gained recognition after his drawings were mentioned in the 1884 novel À rebours (Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans. During the 1890s, Redon began...
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  • songs such as "À rebours" and "The 32nd of December". The inclusion of "Albion" is controversial among fans, due to the song's history as a fan favorite...
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    but, at trial, Wilde said that the novel referred to in Dorian Gray was À rebours (Against Nature, 1884) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, but then denied that the...
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    The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans's most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals...
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    Salome is emblematic of the femme fatale, a fashionable trope of fin-de-siecle decadence. In his 1884 novel À rebours, Frenchman Joris-Karl Huysmans describes...
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  • Against Nature (documentary), a television documentary by Martin Durkin À rebours, a 1883 French novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans Crime against nature This disambiguation...
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  • hashish, opium, and absinthe, found, in Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel À rebours (1884), a sexually perverse hero who secludes himself in his house, basking...
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    achievement, as he saw it, was "to be a disembodied voice, and yet the voice of a human soul". In his 1884 decadent novel À rebours (English: Against Nature or...
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    on the painting in his influential decadent novel À rebours. Moreau himself described Salome as a "bored and fantastic woman, animal by nature and so...
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  • Bidule (1967) L'Homme à la Buick (1968) Le Petit Baigneur (1968) L'Ardoise (1970) Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) Comptes à rebours (1971) La Cavale...
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    The Yellow Book (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    Dorian Gray, the "yellow book" is understood by critics to be À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a representative work of Parisian decadence that heavily influenced...
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    Delphine Chanéac (born 14 November 1978) is a French model, actress and disc jockey. She was born in Valence, France. Chanéac worked in the French cinema...
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    Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours (1884) and, most famously, for the Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–1927)...
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  • famous - novel, À rebours. Huysmans later noted the similarities between Monsieur Folantin and Des Esseintes, the aristocratic hero of À rebours: I pictured...
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  • Huysmans's novel À rebours, Einstein's theory of relativity, the works of J. W. Dunne and Cartesian dualism. The critic Hugh Kenner, in a 1997 essay entitled...
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    Fin de siècle (French: [fɛ̃ də sjɛkl]) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar...
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    This is a list of fictional turtles, tortoises, and terrapins from literature, movies and other elements of popular culture. Post turtle Ograbme Cultural...
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  • The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (French: Psychologie des Foules; literally: Psychology of Crowds) is a book authored by Gustave Le Bon that was...
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    descriptions of Gustave Moreau's paintings of Salome in Joris-Karl Huysmans's À rebours and by Heinrich Heine's Atta Troll, Jules Laforgue's "Salomé" in Moralités...
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    the Babyshambles debut studio album Down in Albion, there is a track entitled "À rebours", which is significantly influenced by the novel of the same...
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  • Comptes à rebours (1971) – Macyas Smic Smac Smoc (1971) – Smoc La Poudre d'escampette (1971) – Ali Trois milliards sans ascenseur (1972) – José What a Flash...
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    associated with Symbolism and the Decadent movement, mostly in his book à rebours. André Gide, Anatole France, Alain-Fournier, and Paul Bourget are among...
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    years with the anxiety of a possible second arrest. During the Occupation she produced two volumes of memoirs, Journal à Rebours (1941) and De ma Fenêtre...
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    Bertrand Mandico is a French experimental film director of short films, medium-length films, experimental essays, and three feature films. The Wild Boys...
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    Verlaine—by Des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' famous decadent novel, À rebours Born October 1, 1851, at Ixelles, Belgium, and died April 7, 1916, at...
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    Simone Signoret (category Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners)
    September 1985) was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award...
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