The main character in this novel collects real flowers that resemble artificial ones, and his favorite painting is a Moreau of Salome and the head of John the Baptist.
The main character in this novel collects real flowers that resemble artificial ones, and his favorite painting is a Moreau of Salome and the head of John the Baptist. He has a farewell dinner for his virility, where he is served by naked African women. As a youth, he has two lovers: a ventriloquist whom he has perform Flaubert's dialogue between the Sphinx and Chimera, and an American Acrobat, Miss Urania. At the end of the novel, a doctor orders him to return to social life in Paris, and in fear of death, he gives up his decadent ways. FTP, identify this novel about the aesthete Des Esseintes, written by Joris Karl Huysmans.
The main character in this novel collects real flowers that resemble artificial ones, and his favorite painting is a Moreau of Salome and the head of John the Baptist.
Against the Grain also accept Against Nature or A Rebours