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 ea isi satisface gustul pentru lux si exces. Virand intre excitabilitatea nervoasa si oboseala debilitanta, isi umple poftele estetice cu literatura si arta clasica, bijuterii exotice (cu care isi incrusta fatal coaja broastei testoase).