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Certain Artists by J. K. HUYSMANS
Category: Art and Design
Certain Artists makes for compelling reading. Huysmans' idiosyncratic assessments throw light on his aesthetic preoccupations, past and present, and hint at the spiritual journey he was about to undertake. It includes over 140 black and white illustrations, as well as an introduction, setting the book i ...Show more
Down There by J. K. Huysmans; Keene Wallace (Translator)
Category: Fiction
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 and personal freedom to write as he pleased. In the same ...Show more
La-Bas by J. K. [Translated by Brendan KING] HUYSMANS
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dedalus European Classics Ser.
'Literally translated as "down there", l -bas is here used by Huysmans in its other sense: Hell. This novel is one of the key texts of the Decadent movement of the 1890s and writhes with satanists, occultists, incubi (male demons), succubi (female demons) and intellectuals. Durtal is a disaffected, midd ...Show more
La Bas (the Damned) by J K Huysmans
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals, "The Damned (La-Bas)" caused a scandal when it was first published in nineteenth-century France. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction and notes by Terry Hale. Durtal, ...Show more
Parisian Sketches by J. K. Huysmans
Category: Fiction | Series: Dedalus European Classics
First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas' "The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manet's solo show, these "Parisian Sketches share the Impressionist fascination with the contemporary life of Paris, the exuberant Paris of the Opera Garnier and the Folies-Bergers. Like the striking images of the early I ...Show more
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