À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In a special edition of the show recorded at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, John and Andy are joined by the bookstore's owner Sylvia Whitman and author Adam Biles to discuss Huysmans' novel of aesthetic isolation A Rebours. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 8'20 - An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It: A John Murray Original by Jessie Greengrass, 17'19 - Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz, 26'35 - À Rebours by J.-K. Huysmans * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Where are we Andy?
0:15.0	If it's Tuesday we must be on the left bank in Paris.
0:21.0	Yeah, you can almost hear the accordion of the syllab.
0:25.0	For the sirens.
0:28.0	We were just out and about having an important...
0:31.0	Flaneering.
0:32.0	We were having an important pre- Podcast meeting in a very nice restaurant and
0:36.8	So far in the in like about half an hour.
0:40.3	It's your people have come up to go and say and say you want to go, oh you are Karl Marx.
0:44.0	Oh, you are Victor Hugo.
0:46.0	So you can have a permanent stand here at the book shop.
0:50.0	I'm totally coming to live here.
0:52.0	Yeah, definitely. All I get in London to live here. Yeah, definitely.
0:53.0	All I get in London is men coming up to me saying,
0:56.0	what do you use on your beard?
0:58.0	Can I touch it?
0:59.0	No, you can't touch it.
1:00.0	Yeah, it's a little, I'm afraid. Shortich, it's impossible to go out.
1:04.0	And so we're sitting in the library,
1:07.0	and the library is open to...
1:08.0	The Sylvia Beach Memorial Life.
1:10.0	Where we're going to do the...
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