Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself by way of a 30-year
Huysmans, c. 1904
Joris Karl Huysmans Signature
Portray of Huysmans by Louis Félix Beschere (1886)
Huysmans's grave
Submission (novel)
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Submission is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq. The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion, with German and Italian translations also published in January.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
…melodies; noiseless funeral marches, solemn and stately; could hear in his mouth solos of crème de menthe, duets of vespertro and rum." The protagonist of Submission (2015), a novel by Michel Houellebecq, is a literary scholar specializing in Huysmans and his work; Huysmans's relation to Catholicism serves as a foil…
First edition cover