Against the Grain

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Echo Library, 2007 - Fiction - 128 pages
1922. Introduction by Havelock Ellis. Huysmans, French novelist of Dutch ancestry, he was marked as a typical decadent. Against the Grain is part of a spiritual biography. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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About the author (2007)

J.K.Huysmans began writing as a naturalist in the style of Zola. .He changed from being an obscure author and art critic to one of the most famous authors of his day with the publication of A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884. His novel about Satanism, La-Bas (1891)is the cult novel of the nineteenth century.

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