Arebours (English spelling)

Japanese: 《À rebours》（英語表記）Arebours

...Other poets who were not unrelated to symbolist tendencies before the term "symbolism" was popular include Cros, Corbière, and Nouveau (1851-1920). (Lautréamont, who was completely unknown at the time, also deserves to be placed on the fringes of symbolism.) This new literature, which had been gradually gaining ground throughout the 1860s and 1870s, was given a somewhat wider public attention by Huysmans's À rebours, published in 1884. The protagonist of this novel, which itself strongly embodies one aspect of symbolism, is a man who turns his back on the stupid and vulgar real world, withdraws into a solitary life, indulges in dreams, and enjoys beauty. In this novel, which itself is a strong embodiment of one aspect of symbolism, the poems of Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Mallarmé are enthusiastically introduced. ...

From Huysmans

...His debut prose poem collection, "The Box of Dragees" (1874), clearly showed the influence of Baudelaire and Bertrand, and it was with his novel, "The Notes of a Prostitute" (1876), that he first found his true career path. This work was recognized by Zola, and he later contributed to "Evenings at Medan" (1880), a collection of novels that proclaimed his support for naturalism as Zola's student. However, his naturally nervous nature and fin de siècle aesthetic sensibility led him to seek a break from the naturalistic literary view, even though he continued to use meticulous naturalistic techniques, and he wrote the novel "À rebours" (1884). The protagonist, Des Essents, who turns his back on the vulgar world of everyday life and lives in an aesthetic artificial paradise where days and nights are reversed, only to be destroyed, embodies the aspirations of the decadent youth of the time and also made the existence of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Verlaine, whose works he loved, widely known to the world.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "《À rebours》" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのほか，象徴主義という名称がまだ一般化する以前に，象徴主義的な傾向と無縁でなかった詩人として，クロス，コルビエール，ヌーボーGermain Nouveau(1851‐1920)の名があげられる(また，当時はまったく知られていなかったが，ロートレアモンも，象徴主義の縁辺に置くにふさわしい名である)。　1860年代，70年代を通じて，しだいに地歩を固めてきたこうした新しい文学が，多少とも広く知られる機会をつくったのは，84年に発表されたユイスマンスの《さかしまÀ rebours》である。愚劣，猥雑な現実社会に背を向け，孤独な生活にひきこもって夢想に耽り，美を享楽する人物を主人公として，それ自体が象徴主義のひとつの側面を濃厚に体現したこの小説のなかで，ボードレール，ベルレーヌ，マラルメの詩が熱烈に紹介された。…

【ユイスマンス】より

…処女作の散文詩集《ドラジェの小筥（こばこ）》(1874)はボードレール，ベルトランの影響があらわで，彼が真の進路を初めて見いだしたのは小説《マルト，一娼婦の手記》(1876)によってである。これがゾラに認められ，以後ゾラの弟子として自然主義を宣言する小説集《メダンの夕べ》(1880)にも寄稿するが，生来神経質で世紀末的審美眼の持主である彼の資質が，技法的にはあくまでも細密な自然主義的手法を駆使しながらも，やがて自然主義文学観からの脱出を志向させ，小説《さかしまÀ rebours》(1884)を書かせた。卑俗な日常世界に背を向け昼夜逆転の耽美的人工楽園に生きて破滅する主人公デ･ゼッサントは，当時のデカダン派青年の憧れを一身に体現し，またその愛読するボードレール，マラルメ，ベルレーヌの存在を世に周知させた。…

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