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

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

Before doing so, however, he writes a 40-page foreword to a Pléiade edition of Huysmans, as if in a fever, having now finally understood him better than he ever understood himself, as he writes:

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 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

A perverse comet in the firmament of French literature, Joris-Karl Huysmans will always be more admired than loved.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James