The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?

Cultural and Literary in Modernity 25/12/2021

A. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.
B. It ends with the famous line “the horror, the horror.”
C. It explores Jean’s decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.
D. All of the above

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