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Books by Joris-Karl Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Average rating 15, ratings 1, reviews shel times Showing 30 distinct works. After reading "Submission" by J.-K. Huysmans. book Houllebecq, where the main character's career revolves around J.K.

Huysmans and "The Strange Death of Europe" by Douglas Murray, which mentions the book "Au Rebours" and the author's journey to salvation, I decided I should try reading the book itself.4/5(82).

About the Author Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans, whose pseudonym was J. Husymans, was born in at Paris, France. After suffering as a youth in the French Ministry, he subsequently began writing works of prose poetry, the first of which was published in /5(5).

Huysmans saw the Gothic period as being childishly simple; a view by himself unwittingly refuted, in this very labyrinthine & witty book. He proves the Cathedral to be as intricate a cultural construct as it is a J.-K. Huysmans. book one, in which a multiplicity of, often contradictory, elements achieve a /5(9).

Originally published in French under the title “À Rebours” in and translated into English in“Against Nature”, also known as “Against the Grain”, is a book by Joris-Karl Huysmans and is well described by its subtitle “A Novel Without a Plot”.Brand: Wilder Publications. The Online Books Page.

Online Books by. J.-K. Huysmans (Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), ) An online book about this author is available, as is a Wikipedia article. Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), Against the Grain (New York: Lieber and Lewis.

J.-K. Huysmans () The aim of this web site is to provide up-to-date and reliable information about the life and work of the French novelist, Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance.

8 rows    Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. En Route is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans and was first published in It is the second of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself.

Durtal had already appeared in Là-bas, investigating Satanism. En Route and the two subsequent two novels, La Cathédrale and L'Oblat, trace his conversion to Catholicism, an. Originally published inthe updated edition is still regarded as the standard work of reference on the life and work of J-K Huysmans.

It is published by Dedalus, who also publish many of Huysmans' novels. I first discovered Huysmans' work via his novel 'La-Bas' which I /5.

Against the Grain (alternately translated as Against Nature) is a slim novel ( pages) where French author Joris-Karl Huysmans () employs a torrent of baroque descriptions and unending streams of rococo linguistic curlicues to write about a bored, jaded aristocrat by the name of Des Esseinte/5().

Charles Marie Georges Huysmans was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours (Against Nature). His style is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging vocabulary, wealth of detailed and sensuous description, and biting, satirical wit/5.

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (February 5, – ) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours (published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature).

He supported himself by a year career in the French civil service/5(17). This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents.

As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. ns () began writing as a naturalist in the style of Zola.H He changed from being an obscure author and art critic to one of the most famous authors of his day with the publication of A Rebours (Against Nature) in His novel about Satanism, La-Bas ()is the cult novel of the nineteenth century/5(9).

The best books of all time by J. Huysmans. Against Nature by J. Huysmans. Study of obsession and aesthetics in fin-de-siecle France. - Google. I've read this book I want to read this book Down There by J.

Huysmans. Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first. Against the Grain, novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, published in French as À rebours in It was also translated into English as Against Nature.

In both its style and its subject, the work epitomizes the decadence of late 19th-century French elite protagonist, Des Esseintes, exhibits the debilitating symptoms of neurasthenia, a generalized psychosomatic disorder that came into.

Joris-Karl Huysmans, French writer whose major novels epitomize successive phases of the aesthetic, spiritual, and intellectual life of late 19th-century France.

Huysmans was the only son of a French mother and a Dutch father. Looking for books by Joris-Karl Huysmans. See all books authored by Joris-Karl Huysmans, including Against Nature (a Rebours), and Là-bas, and more on. Aside from his definitive biography of J.-K.

Huysmans, his books include The Life and Times of Frédérick Lemaître (), The First Bohemian: the Life of Pages: A rebours de J.-K. Huysmans book. Read 5 reviews from the world's largest community for readers/5.

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