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La Cath?drale of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Symbolical - JSTOR.
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J.-K. Huysmans (1848-1907)
The work of the French novelist and art critic, J.-K. Huysmans, presents a particularly intriguing lens through which to view the cultural and political changes of late nineteenth-century France.
One of the reasons for this is that Huysmans’ artistic development offers so many parallels with that of the period itself.
Joris karl huysmans la basilica
As Robert Baldick puts it in his biography of the writer, ’each of [Huysmans’] major works epitomizes some vital phase of the aesthetic, spiritual, or intellectual life of late nineteenth-century France.’
Coming into prominence as a writer during the 1870s, Huysmans quickly established himself among a rising group of writers, the so-called Naturalist school, of whom Zola was the acknowledged head.
His debut novel, Marthe: histoire d’une fille (1876), was the first of a number of novels to appear over the next few years by writers of his generation with a prostitute as its central character. Over the ne