Readers fo Joris-Karl, or those yet to discover his work, would do well to investigate a new edition of Against Nature (A Rebours) from Penguin (isbn: 0140447636)...featuring Franz Kupka art on the cover, it contains a new introduction to Huysmans and his work, a chronology, and reproduces Huysmans' original 1903 preface, as well as a selection of reviews from writers such as Mallarme, Zola and Wilde.
An avant-garde phantasmagoria! Go get a copy!