Search Results for Joris-Karl Huysmans

... to a mainstream Anglophone audience: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s En Route (1895, trans. 1896) and La cathédrale (1898, trans. 1898) and Pierre Louÿs’s Aphrodite: Mœurs antiques (1896, trans. 1900 and 1906) and La femme et le pantin (1898, trans. 1908). By reading letters, memoirs, and prefaces alongside periodical...

... hermitage” set apart from the banalities of modern society, Des Esseintes, the protagonist of Joris-Karl Huysmans’s paradigmatic decadent novel A rebours (1884), fulminates about two problems. “He was constantly coming across some new source of offence,” Huysmans writes, “wincing at the patriotic...

... simultaneously an “enlightened” colonial policy (or neocolonialism) and a romantic (and at times anti- imperialist) sociology designed to overcome the “anomie”of Western, 24 Joris-Karl Huysmans, A rebours ( 1884; rpt. Paris: Fasquelle, ig70), 49. 25 See for instance Ian Langham, The Building...

... by the goals of Wagnerian- symbolist aesthetics, as well as by the sensory and rhetorical effusion of decadent novels he read and championed, for example, Joris-Karl Huysmans’s A Rebours (1884), famously alluded to as the seductive yel- low book in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). In A Rebours...

... also appears). 3  Here Nietzsche anticipates such commentators on the phenomenon of deca- dence as Joris-Karl Huysmans and Max Nordau. But he also picks up on a trend evi- dent at least since Goethe’s Elective Affinities, where the “naturalness” of the English garden — generally understood...

... the aestheticization and eroticization of rot; the scandal, in Gustave Flaubert, of Emma Bovary’s multichapter agony, capped by her inky postmortem vomit (1857); the revolting refinement of Des Esseintes’s beef broth enema in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Against the Grain ( À rebours , 1884); Madame de Cambremer’s Chopin...