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JK Huysmans Cover of Against Nature (A Rebours)
Libros Schmibros Book Club
Libros Schmibros is back at the Hammer with a monthly book club led by co-directors David Kipen and Colleen Jaurretche. This convening will focus on a book relating to the museum's exhibition A Strange Magic: Gustave Moreau's Salome.
Called by Oscar Wilde the "strangest book...a novel without a plot [with] metaphors as monstrous as orchids" JK Huysmans's A Rebours/Against Nature epitomized the appetite for decadence during the fin-de-siecle, and pointed the way to Gothic strangeness everywhere from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Patrick Suskind's Perfume. (Oxford Classics edition)
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