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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
Huysmans, c. 1904
Joris Karl Huysmans Signature
Joris Karl Huysmans Signature
Portray of Huysmans by Louis Félix Beschere (1886)
Portray of Huysmans by Louis Félix Beschere (1886)
Huysmans's grave
Huysmans's grave
Decadent movement
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The Decadent movement was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
…language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition. First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the Decadent movement with his publication of À rebours. His work expressed his deep pessimism, which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. In later years…
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov