Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans Jeske van der Velden Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham

brodeloze advocaat bij zich komen en geeft hem de opdracht zijn zaak opnieuw te onderzoeken

De vreemdeling

chillingly calm

kort nadat hij haar verlaten had

Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans Jeske van der Velden Gilbert Markham is deeply intriguedA wildly original fin de sicle novel, Against Nature contains only one character. Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes and a kaleidoscope of