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

Not just any literature, but Huysmans, the novels of that well-known figure of French Decadence.

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

But like Baudelaire, Barbey d'Aurévilly, Villiers de L'Isle Adam, Paul Verlaine, and Huysmans, Mr. Moore is one of those sons of Mother Church who give anxious pause to his former coreligionists.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James