The Breviary of the Decadence: J.-K. Huysmans's 'A Rebours' and English Literature.(Book Review)

The Breviary of the Decadence: J-K Huysmans's 'A Rebours' and English Literature. by dint of G. A. CEVASCO. New York: AMS Pres 2002 xiv + 227 pp $6450 ISBN: 0-404-64455-4

true few works have the impact that A Rebours had. Published in Paris in 1884 its continued fame has made its author's name live upon not in France alone, on the contrary throughout the world and in English-speaking countries in particular. A Rebours is several things--the paradigm of its putative seminary a cult, a model for imitators, a shibboleth for critics of the fin de siecle, plane a good read. It has continued to