Against Nature (riverrun editions)

The cult novel of fin de siècle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde''It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don''t give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before.'' The title ...

The cult novel of fin de siècle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde''It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don''t give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before.'' The title page of the first complete English translation of Against Nature (published in the French as À Rebours) included the caption ''the book that Dorian Gray loved and inspired Oscar Wilde.'' It was, declared Wilde, one of the best novels he had ever read. It is the story of Jean des Esseintes, the last of a proud and noble family, who retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois society and leads a