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Joris-Karl Huysmans
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born
February 05, 1848
in Paris, France
died
May 12, 1907
gender
male
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Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuiness , Robert Baldick    3.95 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
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published
1884
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93 editions
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Là-Bas
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Keene Wallace 3.98 avg rating — 591 ratings
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published
1891
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50 editions
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With the Flow
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Andrew Brown , Simon Callow 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings
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published
2003
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Becalmed
3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings
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published
1887
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6 editions
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Marthe: The Story of a Whore
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Brendan King 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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published
1876
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3 editions
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En Route
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, David Blow , W. Fleming  4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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published
1895
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29 editions
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The Cathedral
3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings
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published
1989
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22 editions
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Parisian Sketches
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Brendan King 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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published
1989
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4 editions
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Downstream
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert Baldick , J.K. Huysmans 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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published
1882
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7 editions
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Saint Lydwine of Schiedam
by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Agnes Hastings 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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published
1923
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2 editions
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“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same
thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
“His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
“(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
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