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

Huysmans’s actual conversion to Catholicism makes the narrator contemplate the convenient possibility of crossing over: for all his supposed decadence, Huysmans might have welcomed the new religious regime.

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

He had, so said Huysmans, the manners of a traveling salesman—Balzac's Gaudissart—and would play his own Homais, being addicted to punning and disconcerting joking.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James