À rebours, translated as Against Nature or Against the Grain, is a novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, published in 1884. It follows the life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric aristocrat who retreats from society to indulge in his own decadent and artificial lifestyle. The book is a seminal work of Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle literature, exploring themes of aestheticism, individualism, and the rejection of societal norms.
