Against Nature / (Record no. 492961)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260602134228.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781787475502 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | Kenya National Library Service |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 843.8 HUY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Huysmans, Joris-Karl |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Against Nature / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Joris-Karl Huysmans, translated from the French by Theo Cuffe, preface by Luc Sante. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 288 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 20 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero, who loathes 19th century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. Against Nature contains many themes which became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from naturalism and became the ultimate example of decadent literature. Jean Des Esseintes is the last member of a powerful and once proud noble family. He has lived an extremely decadent life in Paris which has left him disgusted with human society. Without telling anyone, he absconds to a house in the countryside. He fills the house with his eclectic art collection and decides to spend the rest of his life in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. Throughout his intellectual experiments, he recalls various debauched events and love affairs of his past in Paris. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | French fiction. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Historical fiction. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cuffe, Theo |
| Relator term | author |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sante, Luc |
| Relator term | author |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Buru Buru Library | Acquisition, Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution Development | 06/02/2026 | BAI | 1123.00 | 843.8 HUY | B231663 | 06/02/2026 | 06/02/2026 | Books |