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Joris-Karl Huysmans / J.K. Huysmans
Book List in Order: 21 titles
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Against Nature
- May-2003
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Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-siècle novel anticipating many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarmé and Poe. 'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will b...
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Marthe: The Story of a Whore
- Jan-2010
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First published in 1876, Marthe was an important landmark in J.K. Huysmans's literary career: it was the 28-year old writer's first excursion into the novel form and propelled him into the growing ranks of the Naturalist movement, then beginning to t...
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The Crowds of Lourdes
- Mar-2020
- / General Fiction
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The Crowds of Lourdes, first published in 1906, was J.-K. Huysmans last book, and certainly his greatest work of non-fiction. Written in a style that is at once precise and brutal, this Naturalist study of the pilgrim-crowds of Lourdes, presented as ...
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The Oblate
- Mar-2023
- / Christian
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This is the final part of Huysmans' alter ego Durtal's spiritual journey. From the satanism of La-Ba (1891) he makes his way to the foot of the cross by a retreat in a Trappist monastery in En Route (1895), and by living in Chartres in The Cathedral(...
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The Cathedral
Architecture lovers and Francophiles, rejoice. French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel set at the famed cathedral at Chartres contains such detailed descriptions of the site's layout and construction that early tourists sometimes used it as ...
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L'Oblat
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Against the Grain
Described as "A Novel Without a Plot" J. K. Huysman's "Against the Grain (À Rebours)" is a relatively simple story. It concerns the seclusion of one Des Esseintes, the last member of a once powerful and noble family. Having lived...
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The Damned
Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary, and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was Against the Grain. Huysmans’ next famous novel is The Damned which deals with the subject of Satanism. This edi...
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Down There
French novelist Charles Marie George Huysmans (1848-1907) adopted the pseudonym Joris-Karl, or J.-K. Huysmans, for his novels, short stories and art criticism. His thirty-year tenure at the French Ministry of the Interior allowed him the financial an...
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Downstream
Downstream, the shortest and most autobiographical of Huysmans’ novels, is the perfect example of what the French naturalists wanted a novel to be. This dark and mordantly comic masterpiece of everyday pessimism about a Parisian clerk seeking sp...
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En Route
Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary, and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was Against the Grain. This edition of En Route includes a table of contents....
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Parisian Sketches
"No one, not even Toulouse-Lautrec, was so tireless a tracker of Paris’s genius loci as Huysmans. Like many of his radical contemporaries, he was obsessed by the idea of beauty within the ugliness of back-street Paris, by the thought that the disto...
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A Rebours
“It was the strangest book that he had ever read. Things that he had dimly dreamed of were suddenly made real to him. Things of which he had never dreamed were gradually revealed.”
- Oscar Wilde
Describing À Rebours
in The Pic... -
Sac-Au-DOS
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General;...
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Stranded
J.-K. Huysmans’ Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against Nature, sees him again breaking new ground and pushing back the boundaries of the novel form. Stamped throughout with his characteristic black humour...
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The Vatard Sisters
Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a "lewd but exact" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard...
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With the Flow
Through its brilliant, unrelenting detail, Huysmans’ early masterpiece captures the minutiae of misery and boredom in a day in the life of a man who -- for the moment -- refuses to go with the flow. It is published here with the short story The Ret...
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The Black Mass
The astonishing world of the occult revealed in twelve true tales by famous writers, all with a particular interest in the supernatural. In this volume, you will find stories and extracts which cover virtually every aspect of the occult and are tr...
