Huysmans, J.-K (Joris-Karl) 1848-1907
Overview
| Works: | 1,821 works in 6,981 publications in 15 languages and 54,573 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Biography History Art Records and correspondence Criticism, interpretation, etc Paranormal fiction Psychological fiction Exhibition catalogs Biographies |
| Roles: | Author, Author of introduction, Honoree, Other, Contributor, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Commentator, Cartographer, Creator, Correspondent, Writer of accompanying material, Collector, Recipient, 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 )
- 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( )
- The image of Huysmans by Brian R Banks( Book )
- J.-K. Huysmans devant la critique en France (1874-1960) by Michael Issacharoff( 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 )
- Romancing the cathedral : gothic architecture in fin-de-siècle French culture by Elizabeth Emery( Book )
- J.-K. Huysmans and the fin-de-siècle novel by Christopher Lloyd( Book )
- Lettres inédites à Arij Prins, 1885-1907 by J.-K Huysmans( Book )
- Lettres inédites à Camille Lemonnier by J.-K Huysmans( Book )
- J.-K. Huysmans : a reference guide by G. A Cevasco( Book )
- L'Univers artistique de J.-K. Huysmans by Charles Maingon( Book )
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Most widely held works by
J.-K Huysmans
Against the grain (A rebours) by
J.-K Huysmans(
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584 editions published between 1884 and 2018 in 12 languages and held by 5,019 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
584 editions published between 1884 and 2018 in 12 languages and held by 5,019 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
Down there (Là bas) : a study in satanism by
J.-K Huysmans(
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354 editions published between 1881 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century
354 editions published between 1881 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century
En route by
J.-K Huysmans(
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137 editions published between 1800 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,054 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Katolsk roman om forfatterens omvendelse til katolicismen
137 editions published between 1800 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,054 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Katolsk roman om forfatterens omvendelse til katolicismen
The cathedral by
J.-K Huysmans(
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217 editions published between 1898 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,018 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
217 editions published between 1898 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,018 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
La cathédrale by
J.-K Huysmans(
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120 editions published between 1895 and 1992 in 4 languages and held by 934 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This thesaurus for the elementary school student features illustrative sentences, phrases from other cultures, idioms, and exercises for improving writing skills
120 editions published between 1895 and 1992 in 4 languages and held by 934 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This thesaurus for the elementary school student features illustrative sentences, phrases from other cultures, idioms, and exercises for improving writing skills
Against nature by
J.-K Huysmans(
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33 editions published between 1959 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 926 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In this 1884 novel, the last scion of a once-powerful family retreats from his bourgeois life in Paris to an isolated villa where he spends his days in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. A classic account of the quest for enlarged experience and new sensations, Against Nature scandalized Victorian critics with its break from naturalism and embrace of fin-de-siecle decadence"--
33 editions published between 1959 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 926 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In this 1884 novel, the last scion of a once-powerful family retreats from his bourgeois life in Paris to an isolated villa where he spends his days in intellectual and aesthetic contemplation. A classic account of the quest for enlarged experience and new sensations, Against Nature scandalized Victorian critics with its break from naturalism and embrace of fin-de-siecle decadence"--
The Vatard sisters by
J.-K Huysmans(
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9 editions published between 1912 and 2015 in English and French and held by 867 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
9 editions published between 1912 and 2015 in English and French and held by 867 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
Becalmed by
J.-K Huysmans(
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122 editions published between 1887 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 677 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel
122 editions published between 1887 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 677 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel
Grünewald by
Matthias Grünewald(
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5 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Les foules de Lourdes by
J.-K Huysmans(
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105 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
105 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En route by
J.-K Huysmans(
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155 editions published between 1895 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 470 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
155 editions published between 1895 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 470 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Paintings by
Matthias Grünewald(
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11 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 444 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
81 illustrations, 16 in color
11 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 444 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
81 illustrations, 16 in color
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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68 editions published between 1882 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 440 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
68 editions published between 1882 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 440 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
The oblate by
J.-K Huysmans(
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82 editions published between 1903 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
82 editions published between 1903 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam by
J.-K Huysmans(
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118 editions published between 1901 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 424 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
118 editions published between 1901 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 424 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En ménage by
J.-K Huysmans(
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77 editions published between 1880 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 408 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
77 editions published between 1880 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 408 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
L'oblat by
J.-K Huysmans(
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56 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 398 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
56 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 398 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Les soeurs Vatard by
J.-K Huysmans(
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82 editions published between 1879 and 2014 in French and Undetermined and held by 361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This novel tells the story of two sisters who work in a Parisian book-binding factory. But the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts. The passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy, a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work
82 editions published between 1879 and 2014 in French and Undetermined and held by 361 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This novel tells the story of two sisters who work in a Parisian book-binding factory. But the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts. The passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy, a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work
Là-haut; ou, Notre-Dame de la Salette by
J.-K Huysmans(
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29 editions published between 1965 and 1988 in French and Undetermined and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
29 editions published between 1965 and 1988 in French and Undetermined and held by 325 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Against the grain : <A rebours> by
J.-K Huysmans(
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23 editions published between 1884 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
À rebours (translated into English as Against the Grain or Against Nature) (1884) is a novel by the French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. It is a novel in which very little happens; 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. À rebours contained many themes which became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic
23 editions published between 1884 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
À rebours (translated into English as Against the Grain or Against Nature) (1884) is a novel by the French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. It is a novel in which very little happens; 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. À rebours contained many themes which became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic
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Related Identities
- Zola, Émile 1840-1902 Other Contributor Author Dedicatee
- Grünewald, Matthias active 16th century Author
- Cogny, Pierre Author of introduction Author Editor
- Ellis, Havelock 1859-1939 Author
- Goncourt, Edmond de 1822-1896 Honoree
- Howard, John Translator Author
- Baudelaire, Charles 1821-1867 Author
- Diderot, Denis 1713-1784
- Baldick, Robert Author of introduction Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Author Translator
- Descaves, Lucien 1861-1949 Dedicator Contributor Author of introduction Restager Recipient Collaborator Publishing director Speaker Author Editor
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Aesthetics A rebours (Huysmans, J.-K) Art Art, French Art and literature Art criticism Arts, French Authors, Dutch Baudelaire, Charles, Casanova, Giacomo, Cathédrale de Chartres 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, Lemonnier, Camille, Literature Lydwina,--Saint, Mallarmé, Stéphane, Modernism (Art) 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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Charles Marie Georges H
Georgius-Carolus Huysmans
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Meunier, A.
Meunier A. 1848-1907
Uismans, Žoris-Karl
Vismanss, Žoriss-Karls, 1848-1907
Žorž-Šarl Ismans
Γιόρις Καρλ Υισμάν
Гюисманс Ж.-К.
Гюисманс Жорис-Карл
Гюисманс, Жорис-Карл, 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
Уисманс
Хёйсманс, Йорис-Карл, 1848-1907
ז'וריס-קרל הויסמנס
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.
於斯曼
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