作者: J.-K. Huysmans

Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ‘lewd but exact’ slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans’ second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Z …

The misfortunes of Jean Folantin, a downtrodden clerk working for the Ministry of the Interior in Paris, form the subject of J.-K. Huysmans’ blackly comic novella, Drifting (À vau-l’eau). At first gl …

The Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Château de Lourps, had originally been a family of stalwart troopers and stern cavalry men. Closely arrayed, side by si …

Les Soirées de Médan  est un recueil de nouvelles publié le 17 avril 1880 chez Georges Charpentier éditeur à Paris. Il réunit six nouvelles respectivement sign …