10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUYSMANS»
Discover the use of
Huysmans in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Huysmans and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes, an eccentric ...
Joris-Karl Huysmans, 2013
Study of obsession and aesthetics in fin-de-siecle France.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide.
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans, 2012
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Reality and Illusion in the Novels of J.-K.
Huysmans
The Life ofJ-K. Huysmans8 Baldick suggests that, contrary to prevailing critical
opinion, Huysmans actually wrote only one truly naturalist work: Les Soeurs
Vatard? Baldick's view, then, although he never fully develops it, is that in
temperament ...
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The life of J.-K.
Huysmans
For this new edition - the first time the biography has been reprinted in English - Baldick's notes have been extensively revised and updated by Brendan King to take account of the new developments and publications in the field of ...
Robert Baldick, Brendan King, 2006
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The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU
Starting from a longstanding personal unease with the way that migration has
been transformed into a security issue within the EU during the last few decades,
Jef Huysmans has opened up the whole area of societal or identity security to a ...
7
Against the Grain: A rebours
" The novel did receive great publicity on its release, but even though it was heavily criticized it also became influential with a new generation of writers and aesthetes.
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French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Biographical ...
[BF] HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl. See also 8006 to 8014, 8693, 8727, 8780. 9698.
Fabre, Félix-Edmond : 2e promenade dans le Paris cher à Joris-Karl Huysmans,
commentaire par M. Félix-Edmond Fabre, le 3 mai 1951. De la Bièvre à la
chapelle ...
Published in 1891, "La-bas" is Huysmans' best-selling novel; its success was due, in part, to its sensational contents (descriptions of Satanism in late 1880 France.) It is in this novel that Huysmans' character, Durtal, is introduced for ...
Joris-Karl Huysmans, 2008
A novel.
Joris-Karl Huysmans, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUYSMANS»
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Huysmans is used in the context of the following news items.
Capturing the essence of Madame Bovary
For OWC she has translated Zola's L'Assommoir, Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, Huysmans' Against Nature (winner of the Scott ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
The Tablet Literary Festival - A rich and fascinating exploration of the …
... stemming back to Baudelaire and the Decadents, and including Huysmans, Maritain and Péguy. Conversion and the symbiotic relationship ... «Independent Catholic News, Jun 15»
REVIEW: The Picture Of Dorian Gray, St James Studio
... the director has found ways of integrating the references to Huysmans' book Against Nature and the Yellow Book, both important inspirations ... «British Theatre, Jun 15»
Portraits of the makers of art
Huysmans, in a review of the picture, announced that Zola was going to devote a whole novel to Nana, and congratulated Manet on having ... «The News on Sunday, Jun 15»
ZIFF 2015 Launches European African Film Festival Award
The award is also presented as a way to remember and honour a special friend of ZIFF, Guido Huysmans, who proposed the award in 2013 but ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
Sotheby's sells Degas's Little Dancer Aged Fourteen for £15.8m
Critics such as J.K. Huysmans praised Degas for knocking over "the traditions of sculpture", but others were shocked. Paul Mantz referred to the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
Edgar Degas ballerina takes centre stage at Sotheby's impressionist …
The critic JK Huysmans said: “M Degas has knocked over the traditions of sculpture, just as he has for a long time been shaking up the ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Honoring Hillsborough County's top graduates
Favorite book: “À rebours,” by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Social networking: Two hours per week. Advice to other students: “Learn to accept failure. «TBO.com, Jun 15»
Art for the nose
As a young man, Midgley was obsessed with a 19th-century French novel, Against the Grain (À Rebours), by JK Huysmans. The main character, Jean des ... «The Monthly, May 15»
Memory Lane: the Giro d'Italia through the years – in pictures
1974 Jos Huysmans (Molteni) Italo Zillioli (Dreher) Conati, (SCIC), Eddy Merckx (pink) and Giancarlo Bellini at Bassano de Grappa. «The Guardian, May 15»
