{"id":18296,"date":"2017-05-05T01:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18296"},"modified":"2017-05-05T01:05:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:05:26","slug":"arthur-zaidenbergs-a-rebours-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/05\/05\/arthur-zaidenbergs-a-rebours-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Zaidenberg\u2019s \u00c0 Rebours revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Zaidenberg&#8217;s Masereel-like renderings of Decadent icon\u00a0Des Esseintes appear here for the second time courtesy of a recent upload at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.77128\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive<\/a>. Zaidenberg&#8217;s illustrations were for a 1931 edition of Huysmans&#8217; novel, and the copies I linked to back in 2008 were rather fuzzy and low-res compared to these scans. The earlier collection does, however, include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banger.com\/art\/zaid\/ZAID11.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">an additional illustration<\/a> not present in the Internet Archive copy, possibly the result of the plate theft that plagues old illustrated volumes. The 1931 edition isn&#8217;t the best illustrated <em>\u00c0 Rebours<\/em> by any means\u2014the illustrations aren&#8217;t even on a par with Zaidenberg&#8217;s other work\u2014but this is one cult novel whose treatment in any medium is liable to attract my attention.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg16.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg17.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg18.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg19.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zaidenberg20.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/zaidenberg20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/08\/in-the-key-of-yellow\/\">In the Key of Yellow<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/14\/against-nature-in-new-york\/\">Against Nature in New York<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/26\/a-rebours-illustrated\/\">\u00c0 Rebours illustrated<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/07\/22\/arthur-zaidenbergs-a-rebours\/\">Arthur Zaidenberg\u2019s \u00c0 Rebours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Zaidenberg&#8217;s Masereel-like renderings of Decadent icon\u00a0Des Esseintes appear here for the second time courtesy of a recent upload at the Internet Archive. Zaidenberg&#8217;s illustrations were for a 1931 edition of Huysmans&#8217; novel, and the copies I linked to back in 2008 were rather fuzzy and low-res compared to these scans. The earlier collection does, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/05\/05\/arthur-zaidenbergs-a-rebours-revisited\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arthur Zaidenberg\u2019s \u00c0 Rebours revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48],"tags":[8853,7167],"class_list":["post-18296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-arthur-zaidenberg","tag-jk-huysmans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4L6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}