OEuvres completes

by Joris-Karl Huysmans, edited by Jean-Marie Seillan

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Extent: 1128 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Bibliotheque du XIXe siecle

Series volume number: 64

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(May 2019)

ISBN: 9782406085355

Price: $81.00

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Hardback (Published)

(May 2019)

ISBN: 9782406085362

Price: $135.00

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This fourth volume of J.-K. Huysmans’ OEuvres completes compiles all the writer’s production from the years 1888-1891. Bringing together the compendium of art criticism Certains and the novel La-bas, it demonstrates how these two texts worked together to develop a form of maturity that steered the writer towards “spiritualist naturalism.”

  • By (author) Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • Edited by Jean-Marie Seillan
  • Assisted by Alice De Georges

Review - French Ce volume, le quatrieme de l'edition des OEuvres completes de Huysmans, regroupe la production de l'ecrivain au cours des annees 1888-1891. Presentees dans l'ordre chronologique, les oeuvres qu'il reunit relevent de pratiques generiques diverses : nouvelle, critique litteraire, critique d'art, croquis de Paris, reportage. Elles font apparaitre la continuite de l'inspiration huysmansienne : places cote a cote, Certains et La-bas temoignent de la solidarite de la critique d'art et du roman dans le lent processus de maturation interieure qui oriente alors l'ecrivain vers le naturalisme spiritualiste .
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