Auteur: J. K. Huysmans

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The classic tale of satanism and sexual obsession in nineteenth-century Paris, in an attractive new edition…Strong meat for diseased imaginations. …

"La-Bas" is an 1891 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The story concerns Durtal, a man disgusted by the shallowness and decadence of the world within which he lives. Turning t …

A rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English, is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Anti-hero Jean Des Esseintes despises the bourgeois society he lives in and withdraws into the aest …

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 constructio …

A rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English, is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Anti-hero Jean Des Esseintes despises the bourgeois society he lives in and withdraws into the aest …

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 constructio …

Due to its incendiary subject matter, this gripping novel caused quite a controversy upon its initial publication in France in 1891. La-Bas follows the character of a jaded novelist who rejects the m …

Due to its incendiary subject matter, this gripping novel caused quite a controversy upon its initial publication in France in 1891. La-Bas follows the character of a jaded novelist who rejects the m …

With his previous novel, La-Bas, Huysmans shocked the French reading public with his gripping account of a writer who is seduced by Satanism and the occult rituals of the medieval period. In the stir …

With his previous novel, La-Bas, Huysmans shocked the French reading public with his gripping account of a writer who is seduced by Satanism and the occult rituals of the medieval period. In the stir …

St. Lydwine was bedridden from age 15, when she broke a rib, endured a lifelong illness which was recognized to be of supernatural origin. Her body became covered with sores and abscesses and virtual …

Originally published in French under the title “À Rebours” in 1884 and translated into English in 1926, “Against Nature”, also known as “Against the Grain”, is a book by Joris-Karl Huysmans and is we …

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 …

L’Suvre littéraire ‘À rebours’ de J.K. Huysmans est un chef-d’Suvre du symbolisme français du XIXe siècle. Ce roman raconte l’histoire de Des Esseintes, un aristocrate désenchanté qui se retire de la …

French novelist Charles Marie George Huysmans 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 th …

Dans son oeuvre emblématique ‘A rebours’, J.K. Huysmans explore le décadentisme et l’esthétisme fin de siècle à travers le personnage de Des Esseintes. L’ouvrage présente une critique sociale et mora …

À noite, o bombardeio lança sobre esquinas inteiras da cidade as dilacerações de seus obuses, o terror de sua matança anônima; de dia, espreita-se em vão as profundezas nevadas do céu à espera do voo …

"Là-bas" is a novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. The story follows the disillusioned and decadent Parisian writer, Durtal, as he becomes obsessed with the life and deeds …

"The Cathedral" by J.K. Huysmans is a novel that follows the spiritual journey of a man named Durtal, who is struggling to find meaning and purpose in his life. The novel is a work of decad …

This is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The novel centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes. He is an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete and the last representative of an …