The Image Of Huysmans
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The Image Of Huysmans
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Author : Brian R. Banks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Image Of Huysmans written by Brian R. Banks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Interest in the French Decadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans has never been higher since his lifetime. In addition to A Rebours (Against Nature) and La-Bas (Down There), which have seldom been out of print, new editions, reprints, translations, biographies and a bibliography have steadily increased.
Against Nature
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Author : Joris Karl Huysmans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-12-16
Against Nature written by Joris Karl Huysmans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-16 with categories.
Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was "Against Nature."
Against The Grain
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Author : J.-K. Huysmans
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-03-04
Against The Grain written by J.-K. Huysmans and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-04 with Fiction categories.
Ailing, neurotic, and bored with the world, the nobleman Des Esseintes retreats to a secluded cottage in the French countryside. Determined to shun all contact with other people—demanding that even his live-in domestics must wear face-covering robes in his presence—he throws himself into an all-out celebration of the ultimate in artificial and unnatural pleasure. Surrendering to religious and profane literature, morbid paintings, overwhelming perfumes, expensive liquor, grotesque flowers, and reminiscences of his depraved past brings him unsurpassable pleasure, but his mental and physical condition may not be able to keep up. When Huysmans wrote Against the Grain, he did so to move away from the creative restrictions he felt the Naturalist school of literature imposed on him. According to him, “it limited itself to depicting common existence, and struggled, under the pretext of being true to life, to create characters who would be as close as possible to the average run of mankind.” Instead, he dedicated Naturalism’s attention to detail to just one extraordinary, perverse individual, Des Esseintes—fully expecting the resulting work to fail critically and commercially. That the novel would become a scandalous success, and would define Decadence as a movement and ideology, was far beyond his expectations. Oscar Wilde was a well-known admirer of the novel, and drew heavily from it to write The Picture of Dorian Gray. During his trial in 1895, Wilde all but confirmed that the “poisonous French novel” in his work refers to Against the Grain. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the first unabridged English edition, which was translated anonymously and published by Groves & Michaux in 1926. It reinstates passages that were considered too obscene in previous editions, and includes a preface Huysmans wrote twenty years after the first publication of the book.
Gustave Caillebotte
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Author : Michael Marrinan
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2017-01-21
Gustave Caillebotte written by Michael Marrinan and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-21 with Art categories.
Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), the son of a wealthy businessman, is perhaps best known as the painter who organized and funded several of the groundbreaking exhibitions of the Impressionist painters, collected their works, and ensured the Impressionists’ presence in the French national museums by bequeathing his own personal collection. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and sharing artistic sympathies with his renegade friends, Caillebotte painted a series of extraordinary pictures inspired by the look and feel of modern Paris that also grappled with his own place in the Parisian art scene. Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872–1887 is the first book to study the life and artistic development of this painter in depth and in the context of the urban life and upper-class Paris that shaped the man and his work. Michael Marrinan’s ambitious study draws upon new documents and establishes compelling connections between Caillebotte’s painting and literature, commerce, and technology. It offers new ways of thinking about Paris and its changing development in the nineteenth century, exploring the cultural context of Parisian bachelor life and revealing layers of meaning in upscale privilege ranging from haute cuisine to sport and relaxation. Marrinan has written what is sure to be a central text for the study of nineteenth-century art and culture.
Reality And Illusion In The Novels Of J K Huysmans
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Author : Ruth B Antosh
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-10-16
Reality And Illusion In The Novels Of J K Huysmans written by Ruth B Antosh and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Benedict In The World
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Author : Linda Kulzer
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2002
Benedict In The World written by Linda Kulzer and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Benedict in the World presents biographical sketches of nineteen men and women who were oblates of the Order of St. Benedict, that is, members of the Benedictine family of a given monastery who lived in the world, observing the Rule of St. Benedict as they raised families and pursued professions and careers. Dorothy Day, Rumer Godden, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Walker Percy, H. A. Reinhold, and Elena Cornaro are among the oblate subjects of this book.
The Facts On File Companion To The French Novel
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Author : Karen L. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2006
The Facts On File Companion To The French Novel written by Karen L. Taylor and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Electronic books categories.
French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Saint Lydwine Of Schiedam
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Author : J. K. Huysmans
language : en
Publisher: TAN Books
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Saint Lydwine Of Schiedam written by J. K. Huysmans and has been published by TAN Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with Religion categories.
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 virtually came apart into three pieces-symbolically representing the condition of the Church. She ate no food except Holy Communion and experienced many mystical phenomena. An incredible story of one of the most heroic victim souls in the history of the Church.
The Mirror Of Divinity
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Author : Robert Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2004
The Mirror Of Divinity written by Robert Ziegler and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans' fiction. The author claims that only the elimination of Huysmans' stylistic distortions enabled his art finally to become faithful and clear.
Against The Grain
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Author : Joris-Karl Huysmans
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Against The Grain written by Joris-Karl Huysmans and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Against the Grain (French: À rebours) is a novel by French author Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1884. The book tells the story of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive man who comes from an aristocratic family, but who rails against the bourgeois society. Instead, he prefers to hide himself away in a creative, artistic world of his own making. The book which is essentially without plot, details Des Esseintes's aesthetic tastes, his thoughts on literature, painting, and religion, and his hyperaesthesic sensory experiences. Against the Grain became a classic example of so-called 'Decadent' literature (the Decadent movement in the late 19th century was characterized by self-disgust, sickness at the world, skepticism, delight in perversion, and a belief in the superiority of human creativity over logic.) Huysmans didn't think his book would be a hit at all. He predicted that: 'It will be the biggest fiasco of the year—but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I want to say...'. However, when published, Against the Grain caused a storm of publicity and appealed greatly to the young generation of writers and aesthetes. It is believed that when Oscar Wilde writes of the 'poisonous French novel' in The Picture of Dorian Grey, he was talking about Huysmans book.