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Prestige, grave, contemplative and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 370
- Publisher
- K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd., Dedalus,, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Editions
- 77
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781915568571
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Joris-Karl Huysmans is the pen name of 19th century French novelist and art critic Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans. His early works were in the Naturalist school, and he later wrote Symbolist and Catholic literature, paralleling his own conversion to Roman Catholicism. Huysmans is best remembered for his 1884 Décadent novel À rebours. Joris-Karl Huysmans was born on 5 February 1848 in Paris, the son of a Dutch lithographer and a former school teacher. When Joris-Karl was eight, his father died, and his mother soon after remarried. After earning the baccalauréat, Huysmans held a clerical position in the French Ministry of the Interior for 32 years. He was drafted for the Franco-Prussian War of
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