<p>Interest in the French Decadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans has never been higher since his lifetime. In addition to ""A Rebours"" (""Against Nature"") and ""La-Bas"" (""Down There""), which have seldom been out of print, new editions, reprints, translations, biographies and a bibliography have steadily increased. This book is a summa of all works on or by Huysmans. The work has parallel roles - to try and present Huysmans as he wished to project himself both in public and private, to marry this with the refracted image consciously or unconsciously placed before English and American readers down the years since 1880, and to overlay the developing discovery and use of a modern threat to art with its Impressionistic new ""realism"", as applied to the subject in his later years. To this end are assembled a chronology, a section on the works and one on the life, a conclusion, an epilogue, and an appendix (""An Iconography"") with a wealth of photographs and memorabilia. As full a portrait as we may expect emerges, and with it the rich associations with Flaubert, Zola, the Goncourts, Verlaine, Mallarme, Arthur Symons, and an influence that continues to this day.</p>

The Image of Huysmans (Ams Studies in the Nineteenth Century)

Literature & Fiction

Banks, Brian R.

History & Criticism

Ams Pr Inc

Muse & Messiah is the first full comparative study of the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), based on the latest materials, including new interviews with ex-students and biographers, Polish texts, plus all worldwide English studies and influenced works. Rare photographs, detailed chronology, and recent images are included for comparison. Schulz's life and themes are examined with detailed Polish and European influences. New, first-hand corrected information about his home region adds a new dimension to his creative world within contemporary Polish-Jewish tensions. Controversial international debates about his last works are brought up to date in a work that seeks to place his poetic-artistic achievement more centrally to highlight an original, modernist and yet universal vision.

Muse & Messiah: the life, imagination & legacy of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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