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Cult curio about satanism in fin-de-siecle Paris.
The classic tale of satanism and sexual obsession in nineteenth-century Paris, in an attractive new edition...Strong meat for diseased imaginations
(Murrough O'Brien in The Independent on Sunday)
This superb new translation by Brendan King vividly recalls the allusive, proto-expressionist vigour of the original.
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Born in Paris in 1848 and acknowledged as a principal architect of the fin-de-siècle imagination, Joris-Karl Huysmans was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours (1884) and Là-Bas (1891). Huysmans died in 1907.
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The classic tale of satanism and sexual obsession in nineteenth-century Paris, in an attractive new edition...Strong meat for diseased imaginations.
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- PublisherDedalus Limited
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1873982747
- ISBN 13 9781873982747
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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