Huysmans, J.-K (Joris-Karl) 1848-1907
Overview
| Works: | 1,853 works in 7,520 publications in 15 languages and 58,769 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Biographies History Criticism, interpretation, etc Paranormal fiction Art Personal correspondence Psychological fiction Novels Exhibition catalogs |
| Roles: | Author, Author of introduction, Contributor, Creator, Honoree, Other, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Commentator, Writer of accompanying material, Correspondent, Recipient, Collector, 070, Dedicator |
| Classifications: | PQ2309.H4, 843.8 |
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Most widely held works about
J.-K Huysmans
- The genius of the future; studies in French art criticism: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the brothers Goncourt, Huysmans by Anita Brookner( Book )
- Joris-Karl Huysmans by George Ross Ridge( Book )
- Immediacy and meaning : J.K. Huysmans and the immemorial origin of metaphysics by Caitlin Smith Gilson( )
- The life of J.-K. Huysmans by Robert Baldick( Book )
- Huysmans by Henry R. T Brandreth( Book )
- Affirmations by Havelock Ellis( Book )
- The new spirit by Havelock Ellis( Book )
- Lettres inédites à Émile Zola by J.-K Huysmans( Book )
- The first decadent, being the strange life of J.K. Huysmans by James Laver( Book )
- J.-K. Huysmans--novelist, poet, and art critic by Annette Kahn( Book )
- The road from decadence : from brothel to cloister : selected letters of J.K. Huysmans by J.-K Huysmans( Book )
- Writing Japonisme : aesthetic translation in nineteenth-century French prose by Pamela Antonia Genova( )
- J.-K. Huysmans devant la critique en France (1874-1960) by Michael Issacharoff( Book )
- The image of Huysmans by Brian R Banks( Book )
- Romancing the cathedral : gothic architecture in fin-de-siècle French culture by Elizabeth Emery( Book )
- Down stream (A vau-l'eau) and other works : including Marthe, A dish of spices (Le drageoir aux épices), Critical papers (from Certains and L'art moderne), and a Twenty-year-after preface (to A rebours) by J.-K Huysmans( Book )
- J.-K. Huysmans and the fin-de-siècle novel by Christopher Lloyd( Book )
- Lettres inédites à Camille Lemonnier by Joris Karl Huysmans( Book )
- L'Univers artistique de J.-K. Huysmans by Charles Maingon( Book )
- Lettres inédites à Arij Prins, 1885-1907 by J.-K Huysmanns( Book )
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Most widely held works by
J.-K Huysmans
Against the grain (A rebours) by
JORIS KARL HUYSMANS(
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649 editions published between 1884 and 2020 in 13 languages and held by 6,770 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The protagonist, Des Esseintes, exhibits the debilitating symptoms of neurasthenia... The condition necessitates his temporary retirement from Paris to his country estate at Fontenay, where he sets his course "against the grain" of ordinary life. Cloistered in luxury, Des Esseintes contrives a regimen of exquisite sensualism. He devises a "mouth organ" from which he sips "harmonic" combinations of liqueurs. He cultivates exotic flora and arranges to have the shell of a live tortoise inlaid with jewels. His overly refined tastes encompass perfumes, monastic music, visionary painting, and the poetry of Stephane Mallarme. Unchecked indulgence only deepens his malaise, however, prompting his doctor to order him back to Paris. The story ends there, with an appeal by Des Esseintes for pity from a God he only vaguely believes in." (brittanica.com/topic/Against-the-Grain, accessed 1/8/2020)
649 editions published between 1884 and 2020 in 13 languages and held by 6,770 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The protagonist, Des Esseintes, exhibits the debilitating symptoms of neurasthenia... The condition necessitates his temporary retirement from Paris to his country estate at Fontenay, where he sets his course "against the grain" of ordinary life. Cloistered in luxury, Des Esseintes contrives a regimen of exquisite sensualism. He devises a "mouth organ" from which he sips "harmonic" combinations of liqueurs. He cultivates exotic flora and arranges to have the shell of a live tortoise inlaid with jewels. His overly refined tastes encompass perfumes, monastic music, visionary painting, and the poetry of Stephane Mallarme. Unchecked indulgence only deepens his malaise, however, prompting his doctor to order him back to Paris. The story ends there, with an appeal by Des Esseintes for pity from a God he only vaguely believes in." (brittanica.com/topic/Against-the-Grain, accessed 1/8/2020)
Là-bas (Down there) by
J.-K Huysmans(
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381 editions published between 1881 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century
381 editions published between 1881 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century
La cathédrale by
J.-K Huysmans(
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338 editions published between 1895 and 2020 in 8 languages and held by 2,118 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Cathedral (French: La Cathédrale) (1898) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the character of Durtal in Là-bas and En route, which recounted his conversion to Catholicism. La Cathédrale continues the story. After his retreat at a Trappist monastery, Durtal moves to the city of Chartres, renowned for its cathedral. Huysmans describes the building in great detail" -- Wikipedia
338 editions published between 1895 and 2020 in 8 languages and held by 2,118 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Cathedral (French: La Cathédrale) (1898) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the character of Durtal in Là-bas and En route, which recounted his conversion to Catholicism. La Cathédrale continues the story. After his retreat at a Trappist monastery, Durtal moves to the city of Chartres, renowned for its cathedral. Huysmans describes the building in great detail" -- Wikipedia
The Vatard sisters by
Joris-Karl Huysmans(
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116 editions published between 1879 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,681 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ""lewd but exact"" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by ""his fervent admirer and devoted friend.""In it, Huysmans vividly depicts the scene that for his generation of French writers stood for the contemporary world: the brutal, teeming life of the industrial quarters of Paris in the 1870s. Huysmans' Vatard sisters are ""Désirée, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large
116 editions published between 1879 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,681 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ""lewd but exact"" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by ""his fervent admirer and devoted friend.""In it, Huysmans vividly depicts the scene that for his generation of French writers stood for the contemporary world: the brutal, teeming life of the industrial quarters of Paris in the 1870s. Huysmans' Vatard sisters are ""Désirée, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large
En route by
J.-K Huysmans(
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291 editions published between 1800 and 2019 in 5 languages and held by 1,507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En Route continues the story of Durtal, a modern anti-hero; solitary, agonised and alienated. Robbed of religion and plunged into decadence by the pressures of modern life, Durtal discovers a new road to Rome. Art, architecture and music light his way back to God. En Route forms part of a sequence of novels by Huysmans which are in fact barely veiled autobiography. First published in 1895, En Route earned the hostility of the Catholic Church and was condemned for obscenity
291 editions published between 1800 and 2019 in 5 languages and held by 1,507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En Route continues the story of Durtal, a modern anti-hero; solitary, agonised and alienated. Robbed of religion and plunged into decadence by the pressures of modern life, Durtal discovers a new road to Rome. Art, architecture and music light his way back to God. En Route forms part of a sequence of novels by Huysmans which are in fact barely veiled autobiography. First published in 1895, En Route earned the hostility of the Catholic Church and was condemned for obscenity
The oblate by
Joris-Karl Huysmans(
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144 editions published between 1900 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The final book in Huysmans' cycle of four novels featuring the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself
144 editions published between 1900 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The final book in Huysmans' cycle of four novels featuring the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself
Becalmed by
Joris-Karl Huysmans(
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125 editions published between 1887 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel
125 editions published between 1887 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel
Grünewald by
Matthias Grünewald(
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5 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 560 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 560 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Les foules de Lourdes by
Joris-Karl Huysmans(
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107 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
107 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Down stream (A vau-l'eau) and other works : including Marthe, A dish of spices (Le drageoir aux épices), Critical papers
(from Certains and L'art moderne), and a Twenty-year-after preface (to A rebours) by
J.-K Huysmans(
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78 editions published between 1882 and 2021 in 5 languages and held by 516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Set in late-nineteenth-century Paris, Downstream is the story of civil servant Jean Folantin, a man beset with melancholy induced by middle-aged loneliness, nihilism, and toiling for a wage that scarcely allows him to subsist. His days are composed of office drudgery; in the evenings he searches in vain for a decent meal. His nights are spent alone." "Whether Downstream is the political tale of a man's enslavement by poverty or, instead, a psychological tale of his reluctance to genuinely invest hope in anything that actually matters, it is J.K. Huysmans in a foul and visionary mood."--Jacket
78 editions published between 1882 and 2021 in 5 languages and held by 516 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Set in late-nineteenth-century Paris, Downstream is the story of civil servant Jean Folantin, a man beset with melancholy induced by middle-aged loneliness, nihilism, and toiling for a wage that scarcely allows him to subsist. His days are composed of office drudgery; in the evenings he searches in vain for a decent meal. His nights are spent alone." "Whether Downstream is the political tale of a man's enslavement by poverty or, instead, a psychological tale of his reluctance to genuinely invest hope in anything that actually matters, it is J.K. Huysmans in a foul and visionary mood."--Jacket
En ménage by
J.-K Huysmans(
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88 editions published between 1880 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 462 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een Franse schrijver ten tijde van het fin de siècle heeft moeite met relaties maar ook met het alleen zijn
88 editions published between 1880 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 462 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een Franse schrijver ten tijde van het fin de siècle heeft moeite met relaties maar ook met het alleen zijn
Paintings by
Matthias Grünewald(
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12 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 450 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
81 illustrations, 16 in color
12 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 450 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
81 illustrations, 16 in color
Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam by
J.-K Huysmans(
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120 editions published between 1901 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
120 editions published between 1901 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Down there (Là bas) a study in satanism by
Joris-Karl Huysmans(
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28 editions published between 1891 and 2020 in 3 languages and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Cult curio about satanism in fin-de-siecle Paris. Time Out 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
28 editions published between 1891 and 2020 in 3 languages and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Cult curio about satanism in fin-de-siecle Paris. Time Out 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
Là-haut; ou, Notre-Dame de la Salette by
J.-K Huysmans(
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30 editions published between 1965 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
30 editions published between 1965 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marthe, histoire d'une fille by
J.-K Huysmans(
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60 editions published between 1876 and 2018 in French and held by 286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
60 editions published between 1876 and 2018 in French and held by 286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Certains by
J.-K Huysmans(
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44 editions published between 1889 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
44 editions published between 1889 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Trois églises et Trois primitifs by
Joris Karl Huysmans(
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39 editions published between 1908 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 271 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
39 editions published between 1908 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 271 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Croquis parisiens by
J.-K Huysmans(
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63 editions published between 1880 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 271 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Huysmans arpente la capitale dans tous les sens, traquant sans cesse le détail pittoresque, humant l'atmosphère des quartiers qui lui sont chers (Saint-Denis, Montmartre), campant les silhouettes des personnages typiquement parisiens qu'il aime (le marchand de marrons, le conducteur d'autobus, la blanchisseuse). Et il part à la découverte de la banlieue
63 editions published between 1880 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 271 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Huysmans arpente la capitale dans tous les sens, traquant sans cesse le détail pittoresque, humant l'atmosphère des quartiers qui lui sont chers (Saint-Denis, Montmartre), campant les silhouettes des personnages typiquement parisiens qu'il aime (le marchand de marrons, le conducteur d'autobus, la blanchisseuse). Et il part à la découverte de la banlieue
Lettres inédites à Edmond de Goncourt by
Joris Karl Huysmans(
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14 editions published in 1956 in 3 languages and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
14 editions published in 1956 in 3 languages and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Zola, Émile 1840-1902 Other Contributor Author Dedicatee
- Grünewald, Matthias active 16th century Other Illustrator Author Creator
- Baldick, Robert Author of introduction Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Author Translator
- Cogny, Pierre Author of introduction Other Author Editor
- Ellis, Havelock 1859-1939 Author
- Howard, John Translator Author
- Goncourt, Edmond de 1822-1896 Honoree
- Diderot, Denis 1713-1784
- Baudelaire, Charles 1821-1867 Author
- King, Brendan Translator
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Aesthetics A rebours (Huysmans, J.-K) Art Art, French Art and literature Art criticism Artists Arts, French Authors, Dutch Baudelaire, Charles, Casanova, Giacomo, Cathedrals in art Cathedrals in literature Catholic converts Civilization Decadence (Literary movement) Diderot, Denis, Drawing, German Durtal (Huysmans, J.-K) Ethics France France--Lourdes France--Paris Francis,--of Assisi, Saint, French fiction French language French literature Germany Goncourt, Edmond de, Goncourt, Jules de, Grünewald, Matthias, Heine, Heinrich, Huysmans, J.-K.--(Joris-Karl), Ibsen, Henrik, Literature Lydwina,--Saint, Manners and customs Modernism (Art) Naturalism Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Novelists, French Painting, Renaissance Prins, Ary, Proust, Marcel, Rais, Gilles de, Satanism Stendhal, Tolstoy, Leo,--graf, Whitman, Walt, Zola, Émile,
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Meunier, A.
Meunier A. 1848-1907
Meunier А. 1848-1907
Uismans, Žoris-Karl
Vismanss, Žoriss-Karls, 1848-1907
Žorž-Šarl Ismans
Γιόρις Καρλ Υισμάν
Гюисманс Ж.-К.
Гюисманс Ж. К. 1848-1907
Гюисманс Ж.-Ш. 1848-1907
Гюисманс Жорис-Карл
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Гюисманс Й.-К. 1848-1907
Гюисманс Ш.-М.-Ж. 1848-1907
Гюисманс, Шарль-Жорж-Мари, 1848-1907
Гюисманс, Шарль Мари Жорж
Гюисманс Шарль Мари Жорж 1848-1907
Жорж-Шарл Исманс
Жорис Карл Гюисманс французский романист и художественный критик
Жорис-Карл Юисманс
Жоріс-Карл Гюїсманс
Мёнье А. 1848-1907
Уисманс
Хёйсманс, Йорис-Карл, 1848-1907
Юисманс Ш. 1848-1907
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ז'וריס-קרל הויסמנס סופר צרפתי
چوريس كارل هويسمانس
یوریس کارل هویسمانس
위스망스, 조리스-카를 1848-1907
위스망스, 조리스-칼 1848-1907
조리 카를 위스망스
ジョリス＝カルル・ユイスマンス
ユイスマンス, J. K.
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