On the contrary

The manifesto of the European decadence of the late 19th century and its first prosaic masterpiece. The novel, who was admired by Oscar Wilde, Gabrielle d"annunzio and Paul Valeri.
The story of the fragile and sophisticated Duke of Essent, who has a painful rejection for the full -blooded philistinism of the bourgeois society and, in a peculiar revenge that has turned his whole life into an artificial aesthetic paradise , filled with the flight of imagination and exquisite pleasures of both sensual and aesthetic order. The Huissance immerses the reader into the intellectual world of the hero, in his discussion about aromas and colors, about painting and literature - into a world created according to all the canons of aesthetics, where the beauty of the flesh is thrilled, and forever only art