Des Esseintes
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- Robert de Montesquiou used his wit to shield himself from genuine human emotion, and in this form is remembered as a model for Des Esseintes in Huysmans's À Rebours, and the Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
Des Esseintes is a fictional character and the protagonist of Against the Grain. He is an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero.
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