Against the Grain · Character

Théodore Hannon

Belgian poet whose decadent verse is compared to Baudelaire.

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Théodore Hannon shows up with force in XIV. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Des Esseintes finds in Hannon a fascinating corruption that corresponds with his own predilections.

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The emotional and psychological peak occurs in the narrator's horrifying self-confrontation in the mirror, whe…

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