Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Against the Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans follows Jean des Esseintes, the last, sickly heir of an old French aristocratic line, as he abandons Parisian society and retreats to a secluded house outside the city. Determined to live entirely on his own terms, Des Esseintes sets out to construct a private universe ruled by taste: rare books and Latin stylists, paintings and religious art, jeweled curios, exotic perfumes, and carefully engineered sensations meant to replace ordinary life. But the more meticulously he arranges his refuge, the more his mind turns inward, and the pleasures he pursues begin to blur into obsession, anxiety, and spiritual unease. Haunted by memories, repelled by the banality of the modern world, and driven by a hunger for experiences that feel absolutely pure, he tests the limits of artifice itself. Part novel, part interior diary of a decadent sensibility, Against the Grain becomes a tense struggle between intellect and body, desire and disgust, and the longing to escape reality versus the inescapable pressure of conscience, illness, and time.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:22:56) Chapter 02

(00:43:17) Chapter 03

(01:05:56) Chapter 04

(01:43:33) Chapter 05

(02:11:51) Chapter 06

(02:53:47) Chapter 07

(03:27:52) Chapter 08

(04:01:34) Chapter 09

(04:26:50) Chapter 10

(05:00:54) Chapter 11

(05:41:44) Chapter 12

(06:11:02) Chapter 13

(06:46:20) Chapter 14

(07:18:29) Chapter 15

(07:50:27) Chapter 16

(08:23:25) Chapter 17

(08:52:27) Chapter 18

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