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Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans,Joris-Karl Huysmans
Against the Grain contains many themes that became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from Naturalism and became the ultimate example of decadent literature.
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Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes…
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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…
Meet Jean des Esseintes: reclusive, diseased, the last scion of an outmoded aristocratic family. He is also an unapologetic aesthete, prone to overwhelmingly intense sensory experiences in the presence of…
Against Nature centers on Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes 19th century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into…
The cathedral (1898). This book, The cathedral, by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Clara Bell, Charles Kegan Paul, is a replication of a book originally published before 1898. It has been restored by…
Originally published in France in 1884 as aA rebours; This translation first published in 2018 by 21 Publishing, London; Revised translation published in 2019 by Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus…
De tout / J.-K. Huysmans Date de l'edition originale: 1902
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Le drageoir a epices / par Joris-Karl Huysmans Date de l'edition originale: 1874
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WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in…
Les soeurs Vatard (5e ed.) / J.-K. Huysmans Date de l'edition originale: 1880
Un dilemme / J.-K. Huysmans Date de l'edition originale: 1887
Cathedrale Date de l'edition originale: 1919
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he…
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Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original for ‘Bluebeard’. Bored and disgusted by the vulgarity…
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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…
Joris-Karl Huysmans' book Against the Grain was first published in French as rebours in 1884.The piece embodies the decadence of late 19th-century French upper culture in both style and content…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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"The Cathedral" is a novel written by Joris-Karl Huysmans, originally published in French as "La Cathedrale" in 1898. This novel is part of the larger literary movement known as decadence…
La Bievre represente aujourd'hui le plus parfait symbole de la misere feminine exploitee par une grande ville. Nee dans l'etang de Saint-Quentin, pres de Trappes, elle court, fluette, dans la…
Pages catholiques / J.-K. Huysmans; preface de M. l'abbe A. Mugnier Date de l'edition originale: 1899
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Originally published: 1884; this reprint is of the 1903 edition.
Joris-Karl Huysmans: Gegen den Strich. (A rebours). Mit einer Einfuhrung von Jan ten Brink. Joris-Karl Huysmans: Aus dem Aufsatz Moderne franzoesische Romanschriftsteller von Jan ten Brink. Erschienen 1889 in der…
Joris Karl Huysmans,Joris Karl Huysmans
Les soeurs Vatard (5e ed.) / J.-K. HuysmansDate de l'edition originale : 1880Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres…
En rade de Joris-Karl Huysmans. Ecrivain et critique d'art francais (1848-1907).
Joris-Karl Huysmans: Gegen den Strich. (A rebours) Huysmans’ Roman, das Kultbuch der Dekadenz, beschreibt das exzentrische Leben des franzoesischen Adeligen Jean Floressas des Esseintes, der sich gelangweilt von der gehobenen…
Joris-Karl Huysmans: Gegen den Strich. Mit einer Einfuhrung von Jan ten Brink. Joris-Karl Huysmans: Aus dem Aufsatz Moderne franzoesische Romanschriftsteller von Jan ten Brink. Erschienen 1889 in der Zeitschrift fur…
L'oblat (5e ed.) / J.-K. Huysmans Date de l'edition originale: 1903
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Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam / J.-K. Huysmans Date de l'edition originale: 1901
Le present ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la litterature Francaise mise en…
Certains: G. Moreau, Degas, Cheret, Wisthler, [sic] Rops, le Monstre, le Fer, etc. Date de l'edition originale: 1889
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