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Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (February 5, 1848 – May 12, 1907) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel A rebours (published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by a 30-year career in the French civil service. Huysmans' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition. First considered part of Naturalism in literature, he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of A rebours. His work expressed his deep pessimism, which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. In later years, his novels reflected his study of Catholicism, religious conversion, and becoming an oblate. He discussed the iconography of Christian architecture at length in La cathedrale (1898), set at Chartres and with its catherdral as the focus of the book. La-bas (1891), En route (1895) and La cathedrale (1898) are a trilogy that feature Durtal, an autobiographical character whose spiritual progress is tracked and who converts to Catholicism. In the novel that follows, L'Oblat (1903), Durtal becomes an Oblate in a monastery, as Huysmans himself was in the Benedictine Abbey at Liguge, near Poitiers, in 1901. La cathedrale was his most commercially successful work. Its profits enabled Huysmans to retire from his civil service job and live on his royalties.
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- PublisherCreatespace
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1490972676
- ISBN 13 9781490972671
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages114
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