Against Nature

Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise).

Des Esseintes este un aristocrat decadent si bolnav, care se retrage intr-o vila izolata, unde isi satisface gustul pentru lux si exces. Osciland intre o excitabilitate nervoasa si o plictiseala debilitanta, isi satura poftele estetice cu literatura si arta clasica, bijuterii exotice (cu care incrusteaza fatal carapacea broastei sale testoase).