The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work "Against the Grain," is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?
Correct answer: C. It explores Jean's decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.
- 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
Explanation
Huysmans’s Against the Grain follows Jean des Esseintes as he withdraws from ordinary society and constructs an isolated, artificial life. Option B quotes the ending of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, while A misrepresents the novel’s attitude toward education.
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