Huysmans
Americannoun
noun
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The only fictional work that gets close attention is the once-scandalous “À Rebours,” by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
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
Huysmans spoke of his defective eyesight; but disease boasts its discoveries, as well as health.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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