Huysmans
Americannoun
noun
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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
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 James Huneker
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