Against the Grain
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Against the Grain

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Against the Grain is a novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Jean des Esseintes is an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last heir of an aristocratic family, he loathes the bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.

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