{"product_id":"a-dilemma-paperback-2","title":"A Dilemma - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoris Karl Huysmans\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJustin Vicari\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' \u003ci\u003eA Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear a mirror to today's neoliberalist times as it did to the French fin-de-siècle. Written smack in-between Huysmans' most famous works--his 1881 \u003ci\u003eAgainst Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, which came to define the Decadent movement, and his 1891 exploration of Satanism, \u003ci\u003eDown There\u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003eA Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e presents some of Huysmans' most memorable characters, including Madame Champagne, the self-appointed Parisian protector of women in need, and the carnal would-be sophisticate notary Le Ponsart, who wages a war of words with the bereft pregnant mistress of his deceased grandson with devastating consequences. In its unflinching portrayal of how authoritarian language can be used and abused as a weapon, this novella stands as Huysmans' indictment of the underlying crime of the novel itself: a language apparatus employed to maintain the appetites of the ruling class. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarning a wage through a career in the French civil service, \u003cb\u003eJoris-Karl Huysmans\u003c\/b\u003e (1848-1907) quietly explored the extremes of human nature and artifice through a series of books that influenced a number of different literary movements: from the grey and grimy Naturalism of books like \u003ci\u003eMarthe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDownstream\u003c\/i\u003e to the cornerstones of the Decadent movement, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Nature\u003c\/i\u003e and the Satanist classic \u003ci\u003eDown There\u003c\/i\u003e, the dream-ridden Surrealist favorite, \u003ci\u003eBecalmed\u003c\/i\u003e, and his Catholic novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Cathedral\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Oblate\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 6.9 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47249085825273,"sku":"9781939663115","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cmlIOFZJR3pHN09BMldQYS9wOE9ZUT09_64515c03-648a-42f4-8a38-3a3bd2f8121d.webp?v=1768641478","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-dilemma-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}