HUYSMANS, JORIS KARL

zhōrēsˈ kärl üēsmäNsˈ, 1848–1907, French novelist and art critic of Dutch family. He was at first a disciple of Zola; typical of his early, naturalistic novels is Marthe (1876). His later, somewhat autobiographical novels record a spiritual quest of a man named Durtal. À rebours (1884, tr. Against the Grain, 1922) expresses the mood of the decadents, Là-bas (1891) a fascination with Satanism, En route (1895) the simplicity of monastic retreat, and La Cathédrale (1898) the full acceptance of Roman Catholicism.

See biographies by H. R. Brandreth (1963) and G. R. Ridge (1968).

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The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J. K. Huysmans
Book by Robert Ziegler; University of Delaware Press, 2004
Subjects: Huysmans, J.-K--(Joris-Karl)--1848-1907--Criticism And Interpretation
...route; Foules de Lourdes, Les; Huysmans: religious senti- ments ; LA...Un; Emile Zola et LAssommoir ; Huysmans, Joris- Karl : and naturalism Naturalist aesthetics...Pessimism, 21-22, 101, 118; and Huysmans, 31, 99-100, 116, 341...
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Against Nature
Book by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Margaret Mauldon, Nicholas White; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Fiction
...Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Huysmans, J.-K. Joris-Karl , 1848-1907. A rebours. English Against nature -- A rebours/ Joris-Karl Huysmans; translated by Margaret Mauldon; edited with...
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Egoists: A Book of Supermen: Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barres, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest Hello
Book by James Huneker; Charles Scribners Sons, 1909
Subjects: Literature, Modern--19th Cent--History And Criticism
...ab solutely his first books? Huysmans Intime is the title of the recollections...money principally to charities. Huysmans was not a man possessing what...the saving of the soul of Joris-Karl Huysmans, and being a marvellous verbal...
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Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History
Book by Karl S. Guthke; Princeton University Press, 1992
Subjects: Authors--Death, Death In Literature, Last Words
...Hutschnecker, Arnold A., 60 Huxley, Aldous, 14 Huysmans, Joris Karl, 227n.54 Hyde, Tom, 143 Ibsen, Henrik, 4 5...219n.6 Jarry, Alfred, 90 , 211n.52 Jaspers, Karl, 59 , 64 Jean Paul. See Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich...
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Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage
Book by Karl Beckson; Routledge, 1974
Subjects: Wilde, Oscar--1854-1900--Criticism And Interpretation
...Letters of James Gibbons Huneker, 29 Hutchinson, Thomas, Jolts and Jingles : A Book of Poems for Young People, 6 Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 269 , 298 , 388 ; A Rebours, 344 i Ibsen, Henrik, 18 , 159 f., 209 , 234 , 237 , 244 , 273 f., 281...
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Huysmans, Joris-Karl. le Drageoir Aux Epices, Suivi De Textes Inedits
Journal article by Marc Smeets; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Le Drageoir aux epices, suivi de textes inedits (Book)--Book reviews
Huysmans, Joris-Karl. le Drageoir Aux Epices, Suivi De Textes Inedits. by Marc Smeets Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Le Drageoir aux epices, suivi...280. ISBN 2-7453-0869-6. Joris-Karl Huysmans is hot. Il suffit de consulter...
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Taking the Words Right out of His Mouth: From Ventriloquism to Symbol-Reading in J.-K. Huysmans
Journal article by Robert Ziegler; The Romanic Review, 2000
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Huysmans, Joris-Karl--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Impotence--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Misogyny--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Oedipus complex--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Esseintes." A Rebours. By J.-K. Huysmans. Paris: Gallimard, 1977: 373-383. Huysmans, Joris-Karl. La Cathedrale. 2 Vols. (Euvres completes...le roman." A Rebours. By J.-K. Huysmans. Paris: Gallimard, 1977: 55-77...
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Les Soeurs Vatard De Huysmans, Ou Paris Sous Les Bruits
Journal article by Jerome Solal; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 38, 2009
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French--Works, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Works, Huysmans, J.-K.--Criticism and interpretation, Huysmans, J.-K.--Works, Les Soeurs Vatard (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Noise (Sound)--Portrayals, Noise--Portrayals, Proletariat--Portrayals, Working class in television--Portrayals, Working class--Portrayals
...Assommoir?" Bulletin de la Societe J.-K. Huysmans 81 (1988): 12-18. Gaillard, Francoise...Soeurs Vatard." Bulletin de la Societe Huysmans 14 (1936): 217-21. Huysmans, Joris-Karl. "Le Buffet des gares." Le Gaulois 2...
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The Decadent Writer as Collector and Flaneur: On Intertextual Networks and Literary Spaces in Huysmans
Journal article by Joseph Acquisto; French Forum, Vol. 32, 2007
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French--Works, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Works, Huysmans, J.-K.--Criticism and interpretation, Huysmans, J.-K.--Works, Le Drageoir aux epices (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...Networks and Literary Spaces in Huysmans. by Joseph Acquisto Etrange was...in and through which the early Huysmans operates and in which we readers...University of Vermont Notes (1.) Joris-Karl Huysmans, Le Drageoir aux epices, ed...
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Literature of the Miraculous: Huysmans's Les Foules De Lourdes
Journal article by Bob Ziegler; French Forum, Vol. 36, 2011
Subjects: Huysmans, Joris-Karl--Criticism and interpretation, Huysmans, Joris-Karl--Works, Les Foules de Lourdes (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Lourdes, France--Portrayals, Lourdes, France--Religious aspects, Miracles--Portrayals, Pilgrimages--Portrayals, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Portrayals
...descriptions of Liz-bas--J.-K. Huysmans began by returning in Les Foules de Lourdes...the objects they ostensibly evoked, Huysmans had adopted a view of literature as an...down language to an incantatory image, Huysmans had approached the idea of the works...
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Delousing the Soul
Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 25, September 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Life of J.-K. Huysmans (Book)--Book reviews
...that he doesnt exist. But for Joris-Karl Huysmans, though he doubted the existence...ubiquitous. Almost to his dying day, Huysmans shielded himself against the Prince...Taken in September 1904, it shows Huysmans wedged in with other rapt devotees...
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Richard Phillips: Richard Phillips's Work Is Currently on View in "The Contemporary Face: From Pablo Picasso to Alex Katz" at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 40, November 2001
...after horror-movie posters and inspired by such misanthropes as Throbbing Gristle, the Marquis de Sade, and Joris-Karl Huysmans. Bookmarking a pessimism born of disenfranchisement, Brannons work functions as a spreadsheet for the economics...
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The Illusionist: Mallarme and His Circle
Magazine article by Joanna Smith Rakoff; Humanities, Vol. 23, July 2002
Subjects: Mallarme, Stephane (1842-98), Personal profiles, Poetry, Poets
...out by luminaries such as Parnassian poet Jose-Maria de Heredia, novelists Anatole France, Emile Zola, and Joris-- Karl Huysmans, poet Theodore de Banville, short-story writer Leon Cladel, and painters Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and...
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Seurat's "Sunday" Painting
Magazine article by Hilton Kramer; New Criterion, Vol. 23, September 2004
Subjects: A Sunday on the Grande Jatte (Artwork)--Criticism and interpretation, French painters--Criticism and interpretation, Painters, French--Criticism and interpretation, Seurat, Georges--Criticism and interpretation
...heyday of their achievements, some of the criticisms directed at Seurats masterwork are still astounding. Here is Joris-Karl Huysmans, writing in La Revue independante in 1887: Strip his figures of the colored fleas with which they are covered...
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Vive Les Folies Bergere!
Magazine article by Laurence Green; Contemporary Review, Vol. 265, July 1994
Subjects: Music-halls--Appreciation, Paris, France--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...oriental aspect. The general atmosphere, with things constantly happening, was well documented by the writer, Joris-Karl Huysmans in his Croquis Parisiens. The garden with its galleries, its arcades cut grossly out of wood, with tints of...
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Napoleon's Legacy to Youth
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, December 10, 2000
Subjects: Baudelaire, Charles, Brookner, Anita, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
...reached its terminus in the writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. His character Des Esseintes...off. There was something about Huysmans "of anorexia, of reluctance...Conclusion) Miss Brookner revisits Huysmans career with the same brio she...
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Cezanne Takes You Down. Serene or Sinister? in the Lake at Annecy, C.1897, the Tree and Branch Combine in the Evening Light to Shut out the Horizon and Condense the Space Compare and Contrast: Like the Lake at Annecy (Previous Page), Painted a Decade Later, Montagne Sainte-Victoire, above, Constructs the Composition with the Cut-Off Foreground and the Tree. Right, A Man with a Pipe Beautiful in Touch and Tone, Though Physically Illogical
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 18, 2008
...inability to register subtle changes in colour, and no peripheral vision. he angrily refused to wear spectacles. Joris-Karl huysmans, his near contemporary who died in 1907, said of Cezanne that he was "an artist with a diseased retina, who...
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The Gardener and a Mean Machine That's Got the X Tractor
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 23, 2011
Subjects: Farm tractors, Tractors
...an entertainingly knowledgeable tour of plants in literature, from the horrors envisaged by the decadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans who descends into a kind of vegetable insanity, to Terry Prachetts Vul Nut Vine, which blooms eight years before...
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Too Nasty for the Nursery
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 30, 2007
Subjects: Beardsley, Aubrey
...adults. Assuch it is, at its best, a patchily instructive survey of the English responseto the decadence of Joris-Karl Huysmans, the French writer, critic and authorof A Rebours (1884). This was the widely read autobiographical novel...
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Writing about an Exciting Age, Perilously
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 16, 2003
...from Herodotus speculation about Cleomenes to Franz Kafka fantasies on punishment as being written on the body and Joris-Karl Huysmans retreat into monastic life, season the historical and intellectual pot. But it is the 18th century, brilliant...
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Huysmans, Joris Karl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUYSMANS, JORIS KARL zhores karl uesmaNs , 1848 1907, French novelist and art critic of Dutch family. He was at first a disciple of Zola; typical of his early, naturalistic novels is Marthe (1876). His later, somewhat autobiographical novels...


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