Huysmans

American  

[wees-mahns] / wisˈmɑ̃s /

noun

1. Joris Karl Charles Marie Georges Huysmans, 1848–1907, French novelist.

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Huysmans British  

/ ʎismɑ̃s /

noun

1. Joris Karl (ʒɔris karl). 1848–1907, French novelist of the Decadent school, whose works include À rebours (1884)

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Example Sentences

I think of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ “Against Nature,” Russell Greenan’s “It Happened in Boston?” and James Hogg’s “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,” not to mention the work of Kafka himself.

From Los Angeles Times

It reminds me of one of my favorite lines in literature — the last line of Huysmans’s “À Rebours”: “O Lord, pity the Christian who doubts, the skeptic who would believe, the convict of life embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined by the consoling beacons of ancient faith.”

From New York Times

Eliot, Jean Genet, Joris-Karl Huysmans, 12-step slogans — solemn, funny, in between.

From New York Times

Huysmans’s “Against the Grain,” the ultra-decadent Des Esseintes retreats from crass, bourgeois society to a specially designed house in the country, his own artificial paradise.

From Washington Post

The only fictional work that gets close attention is the once-scandalous “À Rebours,” by Joris-Karl Huysmans.

From New York Times