Joris Karl Huysmans was born in Paris in 1848 of Dutch parents. He died on May 13, 1907, the last of the little band of Naturalists which included Zola, Daudet, and the Goncourts. Huysmans was the preeminent Parisian writer. Huysmans worked, like the hero of “Downstream, ” as a low-level clerk in the Ministry of the Interior.
4 Ebooks door Robert Baldick
Robert Baldick & Brendan King: The Life of J.-K.Huysmans
Definitive biography of one of the great late 19th century novelists Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Gustave Flaubert: Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education begins with the hero – Frederic Moreau – leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is …
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Raymond Radiguet: Devil in the Flesh
As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat o …
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Joris-Karl Huysmans: Downstream
Downstream, the shortest and most autobiographical of Huysmans’ novels, is the perfect example of what the French naturalists wanted a novel to be. This dark and mordantly comic masterpiece of everyd …
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