Home    New Authors    New Books    Coming Soon    Most Popular    Top Authors    Series    Awards    
Joris Karl Huysmans's picture

Joris Karl Huysmans

(Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans)
France   (1848 - 1907)
Search Authors

Search Books

 
New books rss feed for Joris Karl Huysmans
About Joris Karl Huysmans
J.K. Huysmans was the writer of the French Fin de siècle. His masterpiece was Against Nature - forever associated with the trial of Oscar Wilde - more or less defined the taste of the Decadents. Essentially a writer of disillusion, Huysmans' books chart his autobiographical hero's attempt, and failure, to find some meaning in life. Another novel La Bas (Down There) described the hero's involvement in Satanism. Between these two seminal works Huysmans wrote another: Becalmed (En Rade) - it is their connecting link.
 




Search for    

© 2009 FantasticFiction     Bibliography by D C Wands     Last Updated:
Questions? Comments? Corrections? Please email webmaster@fantasticfiction.co.uk