The Cathedral

Literature & Fiction

Huysmans, J.K.

Contemporary

Ams Pr Inc

Saint Lydwine of Schiedam

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History

Wentworth Press

Grünewald

Phaidon / NY: E.P. Dutton

"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade…The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts…and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy…a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work…" Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future

The Vatard Sisters (Studies in Romance Languages)

Univ Pr of Kentucky

Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a "lewd but exact" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by "his fervent admirer and devoted friend." In it, Huysmans vividly depicts the scene that for his generation of French writers stood for the contemporary world: the brutal, teeming life of the industrial quarters of Paris in the 1870s. Huysmans' Vatard sisters are "Désirée, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large, pale eyes that were somewhat crossed, plump without being fat, attractive and clean; and Céline, the carouser, a big girl with clear eyes and hair the color of straw, a solid, vigorous girl whose blood raced and danced in her veins." The two are part of that "bizarre race of young women" who work as bookbinders, whose lives revolve around the gaslighted bindery works, the gaudy shop windows, and cheap wineshops that Huysmans describes with minute and colorful detail. His precisely observed sketches show that Naturalism as practiced by Buysmans had none of Zola' s emphasis on "scientific" determinism, but centered primarily on the faithful rendering of what he described as "living persons in real milieus." The Vatard Sisters is the first English translation of Les Soeurs Vatard.

The Vatard Sisters (Studies In Romance Languages)

United States

University Press of Kentucky

Personal correspondence of the French novelist from 1876 to 1907, commenting on literature, art, the press, the church, the Dreyfus affair, America, and modernism. Many of the 200 letters are translated and published here for the first time. Drawn from the Pierre Lambert collection and the archives of the abbey where Huysmans settled late in life. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans

Beaumont, Barbara

World Literature

Ohio State Univ Pr

En Route

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Classics

Howard Fertig Pub

1895 classic condemnd for obscenity, tr David Blow

En Route (Dedalus European Classics)

Literary

Hippocrene Books

This is the OVERSIZED softcover only stated Dedalus Edition from 1986. Both the cover (no dj) and the book are in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.---and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe.

LA Bas/Lower Depths

The Cathedral (French: La Cathédrale) (1898) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. A revised English edition was published in 2011. It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the character of Durtal in Là-bas and En route, which recounted his conversion to Catholicism. La Cathédrale continues the story. After his retreat at a Trappist monastery, Durtal moves to the city of Chartres, renowned for its cathedral. Huysmans describes the building in great detail.

Cathedral: Dedalus European Classics

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