Huysmans, J.-K (Joris-Karl) 1848-1907
Overview
| Works: | 1,808 works in 7,141 publications in 15 languages and 55,527 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc History Paranormal fiction Personal correspondence Art Psychological fiction Exhibition catalogs Biographies |
| Roles: | Author, Author of introduction, Creator, Honoree, Other, Contributor, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Cartographer, Commentator, Writer of accompanying material, Correspondent, Collector, 070, 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( )
- J.-K. Huysmans devant la critique en France (1874-1960) by Michael Issacharoff( Book )
- The image of Huysmans by Brian R Banks( 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 Camille Lemonnier by J.-K Huysmans( Book )
- Lettres inédites à Arij Prins, 1885-1907 by J.-K Huysmans( Book )
- L'Univers artistique de J.-K. Huysmans by Charles Maingon( Book )
- J.-K. Huysmans : a reference guide by G. A Cevasco( 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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646 editions published between 1884 and 2019 in 12 languages and held by 6,335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A neurasthenic aristocrat turns his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreats to an isolated country villa. Here he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems and perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments
646 editions published between 1884 and 2019 in 12 languages and held by 6,335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A neurasthenic aristocrat turns his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreats to an isolated country villa. Here he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems and perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments
Down there (Là bas) : a study in satanism by
J.-K Huysmans(
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377 editions published between 1881 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,488 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century
377 editions published between 1881 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,488 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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345 editions published between 1895 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 2,007 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
345 editions published between 1895 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 2,007 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
En route by
J.-K Huysmans(
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299 editions published between 1800 and 2019 in 5 languages and held by 1,559 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
299 editions published between 1800 and 2019 in 5 languages and held by 1,559 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 Vatard sisters by
J.-K Huysmans(
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110 editions published between 1879 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,527 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
110 editions published between 1879 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,527 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
The oblate by
J.-K Huysmans(
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144 editions published between 1900 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
144 editions published between 1900 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Becalmed by
J.-K Huysmans(
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121 editions published between 1887 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 684 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel
121 editions published between 1887 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 684 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
J.-K Huysmans(
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105 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
105 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 511 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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74 editions published between 1882 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 483 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
74 editions published between 1882 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 483 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
Paintings by
Matthias Grünewald(
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11 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
81 illustrations, 16 in color
11 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
81 illustrations, 16 in color
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 429 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
118 editions published between 1901 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 429 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En ménage by
J.-K Huysmans(
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83 editions published between 1880 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 420 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
83 editions published between 1880 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 420 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
Là-haut; ou, Notre-Dame de la Salette by
J.-K Huysmans(
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28 editions published between 1965 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
28 editions published between 1965 and 1988 in 3 languages and held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marthe, histoire d'une fille by
J.-K Huysmans(
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67 editions published between 1876 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Het tragische levensverhaal van een meisje dat eind 19e eeuw actrice wil worden, maar door drank en armoede in een bordeel terechtkomt
67 editions published between 1876 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Het tragische levensverhaal van een meisje dat eind 19e eeuw actrice wil worden, maar door drank en armoede in een bordeel terechtkomt
Trois églises et Trois primitifs by
J.-K Huysmans(
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37 editions published between 1908 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 265 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
37 editions published between 1908 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 265 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Certains by
J.-K Huysmans(
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41 editions published between 1889 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
41 editions published between 1889 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 257 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lettres inédites à Edmond de Goncourt by
J.-K Huysmans(
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12 editions published in 1956 in 3 languages and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 editions published in 1956 in 3 languages and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The first decadent, being the strange life of J. K. Huysmans by
James Laver(
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4 editions published between 1954 and 1955 in English and held by 230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This is the first full-length biography in English of the French writer, Joris-Karl Huysmans. His most famous and certainly his most notorious novel, Là-Bas, published in 1884, became a classic overnight, and his later works, especially Against the Grain, En Route and La Cathédrale, which are concerned with his pilgrimage toward the Catholic Church, are extraordinary in their vivid power. Huysmans' work occupies a unique and important place in French literature of the 'eighties and 'nineties. In his biography, James Laver, author of Whistler, traces Huysmans' strange and unusual life and his progress through the horrifying by-ways of diabolism and the Black Mass to the Catholic Church. He shows Huysmans' relation on the one hand to the Naturalism of Emile Zola and to the Goncourts, and on the other to Barbey d'Aurevilly, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the Symbolists and the Catholic converts. Huysmans' works receive considerable attention in this, his first biography in English. Mr. Laver has delved deeply in the evidence concerning Satanism and the occult to furnish the background for an understanding of Là-Bas. He has gone to great pains to identify the characters and themes of this and other novels."--Dust jacket
4 editions published between 1954 and 1955 in English and held by 230 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This is the first full-length biography in English of the French writer, Joris-Karl Huysmans. His most famous and certainly his most notorious novel, Là-Bas, published in 1884, became a classic overnight, and his later works, especially Against the Grain, En Route and La Cathédrale, which are concerned with his pilgrimage toward the Catholic Church, are extraordinary in their vivid power. Huysmans' work occupies a unique and important place in French literature of the 'eighties and 'nineties. In his biography, James Laver, author of Whistler, traces Huysmans' strange and unusual life and his progress through the horrifying by-ways of diabolism and the Black Mass to the Catholic Church. He shows Huysmans' relation on the one hand to the Naturalism of Emile Zola and to the Goncourts, and on the other to Barbey d'Aurevilly, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the Symbolists and the Catholic converts. Huysmans' works receive considerable attention in this, his first biography in English. Mr. Laver has delved deeply in the evidence concerning Satanism and the occult to furnish the background for an understanding of Là-Bas. He has gone to great pains to identify the characters and themes of this and other novels."--Dust jacket
The damned = Là-bas by
J.-K Huysmans(
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7 editions published between 1891 and 2015 in English and held by 227 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Huysmans's gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his masterpiece, A Rebours (Against Nature)." "It follows Durtal, a shy, censorious man, who is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the fifteenth-century child murderer and supposed original for 'Bluebeard'. Durtal is bored and disgusted by the vulgarity of everyday life and seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. But when he meets the exquisitely evil Madame Chantelouve, he is drawn into the twilight world of black magic and erotic devilry in fin-de-siecle Paris."--Jacket
7 editions published between 1891 and 2015 in English and held by 227 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Huysmans's gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his masterpiece, A Rebours (Against Nature)." "It follows Durtal, a shy, censorious man, who is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the fifteenth-century child murderer and supposed original for 'Bluebeard'. Durtal is bored and disgusted by the vulgarity of everyday life and seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. But when he meets the exquisitely evil Madame Chantelouve, he is drawn into the twilight world of black magic and erotic devilry in fin-de-siecle Paris."--Jacket
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Related Identities
- Zola, Émile 1840-1902 Other Contributor Author Dedicatee
- Cogny, Pierre Author of introduction 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
- Baldick, Robert Author of introduction Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Author Translator
- King, Brendan Translator Author
- 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 Artists Arts, French Authors, Dutch Baudelaire, Charles, Casanova, Giacomo, Cathédrale de Chartres Cathedrals in art Cathedrals in literature Catholic converts Civilization 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, Modernism (Art) Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Novelists, French Painting, Renaissance Paranormal fiction Prins, Ary, Proust, Marcel, Rais, Gilles de, Satanism Stendhal, Tolstoy, Leo,--graf, Whitman, Walt, Zola, Émile,
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A. Meunier
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.
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