Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.
Released: May 01, 1973
Runtime: 17 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli
Crew: Carmelo Bene (Director), Carmelo Bene (Adaptation), Joris-Karl Huysmans (Novel), Mauro Contini (Cinematography), Mauro Contini (Editor)