Huysmans, J.-K (Joris-Karl) 1848-1907

Overview

Works:	1,317 works in 5,312 publications in 6 languages and 46,473 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc History Art Records and correspondence Legends Autobiographical fiction Manuscripts Bibliography
Roles:	Author of introduction, Honoree, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Commentator, Other, Creator, Correspondent, Writer of accompanying material, Contributor, Collector, Recipient, Dedicator
Classifications:	PQ2309.H4, 843.8

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Publications about J.-K Huysmans

Publications by J.-K Huysmans

Publications by J.-K Huysmans, published posthumously.

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 )
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 )
The first decadent, being the strange life of J.K. Huysmans by James Laver ( Book )
Lettres inédites à Émile Zola by J.-K Huysmans ( 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 )
J.-K. Huysmans devant la critique en France (1874-1960) by Michael Issacharoff ( Book )
The image of Huysmans by Brian R Banks ( Book )
J.-K. Huysmans and the fin-de-siècle novel by Christopher Lloyd ( Book )
Romancing the cathedral : gothic architecture in fin-de-siècle French culture by Elizabeth Emery ( Book )
J.-K. Huysmans : a reference guide by G. A Cevasco ( Book )
J.-K. Huysmans : à la recherche de l'unité, avec de nombreux ined́its by Pierre Cogny ( Book )
L'esthétique de J.-K. Huysmans by Helen Trudgian ( Book )
Huysmans, peintre de son époque. Avec des documents inédits by Fernande Zayed ( Book )
The mirror of divinity : the world and creation in J.-K. Huysmans by Robert Ziegler ( Book )
The breviary of the Decadence : J.-K. Huysmans's A rebours and English literature by G. A Cevasco ( Book )

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Most widely held works by J.-K Huysmans

Against the grain À rebours by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
65 editions published between 1922 and 2012 in English and held by 2,395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation."--Wikipedia

A rebours by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
330 editions published between 1884 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,820 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La 4e de couverture indique : "La Bible de l'esprit décadent et de la " charogne " 1900. A travers le personnage de des Esseintes, Huysmans n'a pas seulement résumé, immortalisé les torpeurs, les langueurs, les névroses vénéneuses et perverses du siècle finissant. Des Esseintes est aussi un héros kierkegaardien, à la fois grotesque et pathétique, une des plus fortes figures de l'angoisse qu'ait laissées notre littérature. Fils spirituel de René et de la génération du mal du siècle, il annonce à bien des égards le Bardamu de Céline et le Roquentin de La Nausée."

En route by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
223 editions published between 1800 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Là-Bas by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
237 editions published between 1881 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in history, Gilles de Rais--child murderer, sadist, necrophile and practitioner of all the black arts. The book's authentic, extraordinarily detailed descriptions of the Black Mass have never been surpassed."--Amazon.com

Against nature by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
43 editions published between 1959 and 2013 in English and held by 1,283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life

La cathédrale by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
214 editions published between 1895 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 1,093 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Grünewald by Matthias Grünewald ( Book )
4 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 569 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

L'oblat by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
103 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Down there (Là bas) a study in satanism by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
17 editions published between 1924 and 1974 in English and held by 464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Les soeurs Vatard by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
87 editions published between 1879 and 2014 in French and Undetermined and held by 452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Un des premiers romans de l'auteur, écrit à l'époque où, disciple de Zola, il s'essayait au naturalisme. Peinture minutieuse des faubourgs populaires parisiens, description impitoyable du monde ouvrier de cette fin du XIXe siècle, ce livre nous fait connaître les ateliers et les guinguettes, côtoyer les ouvrières et les voyous, vivre les petites amours et les vengeances

Marthe : histoire d'une fille ; Les Sœurs Vatard by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
81 editions published between 1876 and 2010 in French and Undetermined and held by 449 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Les foules de Lourdes by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
83 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 424 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The cathedral by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
29 editions published between 1898 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Architecture lovers and Francophiles, rejoice. French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel set at the famed cathedral at Chartres contains such detailed descriptions of the site's layout and construction that early tourists sometimes used it as a guidebook. The book is the third in a series of works that follow the religious conversion and spiritual life of Durtal, the protagonist that Huysmans modeled on himself

Là-bas (Down there) by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
11 editions published between 1928 and 2003 in English and French and held by 348 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century

Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
91 editions published between 1901 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

En ménage by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
56 editions published between 1880 and 2007 in French and Undetermined and held by 319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La dernière oeuvre du romancier évoque la vie maritale morne d'un jeune couple dont la femme a trompé le mari

En rade by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
87 editions published between 1887 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Grünewald : the paintings by Matthias Grünewald ( Book )
10 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 309 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Vatard sisters by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
5 editions published between 1983 and 2012 in English and held by 303 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Story of 2 Parisian working-class sisters at the end of the 19thc " A powerful and outstanding work." Gustave Flaubert "The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Mich

Là-haut; ou, Notre-Dame de la Salette by J.-K Huysmans ( Book )
26 editions published between 1965 and 1988 in French and Undetermined and held by 302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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