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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Huysmans

Now I discovered the more thoroughgoing decadence of Huysmans and, once I got to university, Nietzsche’s instruction to make of oneself a work of art.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018

Huysmans, uses a foggy day in Paris to pretend, quite effectively, that he is actually in London, thus saving the cost and bother of traveling there.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2015

Houellebecq takes very seriously the enterprise, in which Huysmans is also implicated, of rejecting Enlightenment modernity in favor of some kind of mystical-spiritual nation reëstablished on a foundation of faith.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015

The writer J. K. Huysmans, known for his decadent sympathies, wrote that Moreau was “a mystic locked up at the heart of Paris.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014

The Paris of Manet, Monet, Degas, Whistler, Huysmans, Zola, Verlaine, and all the "new" men of 1880—what an unexplored vein he did work for the profit and delectation of the English-speaking world.

From Unicorns by James Huneker

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