The novelist Joris Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) was a leading French exponent of the decadent movement. His works, though intensely personal, present artistic and intellectual life in late-19th-century F...
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The work of Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist, essayist, and art critic, provides one of the clearest examples of the transformation of popular philosophy and literary art that took place near the turn of...
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While working on a carefully guarded film project in 1982, Steven Spielberg invited the versatile writer William Kotzwinkle to Hollywood. Spielberg had read and enjoyed Kotzwinkle's vivid evocation of...
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In the following excerpt, Knapp discusses Joris-Karl Huysmans' controversial novel Against the Grain, suggesting that des Esseintes's self-imposed exile attests to his being deprived of ...
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In the following essay, Jones and Kingsley focus on Huysmans's descriptions in Against the Grain of paintings by Gustave Moreau in which the biblical figure of Salome is depicted as the epitome...
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In the following essay, Kahn examines the aesthetic and psychological principles underlying Huysmans's art criticism.
Huysmans wrote during a time of profound debate and fundamental changes ...
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In the following essay, Mossman argues that the neur tic personality of the central character of Against the Grain reveals elements of Huysmans's own psyche that eventually led to his religious...
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In the following essay, Banks provides a survey of Huysmans's fiction written during his Naturalist, Decadent, and Catholic phases.
Le Drageoir À Épices, 1874
On October 10, 1874, ...
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In the following essay, Lloyd discusses Huysmans's works in the context of French literary trends of the late nineteenth century, particularly Naturalism and Decadence.
Finding a reliable, u...
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In the following excerpt, Paglia views Huysmans, Charles Baudelaire, and Théophile Gautier as the three principal French authors whose works defined characteristically Decadent ideals of eroticis...
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In the following essay, Felski considers depictions of gender roles in novels by Huysmans, Oscar Wilde, and Leopoldvon Sacher-Masoch.
An imaginary identification with the feminine permeates much of...
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In the following essay, Leach uses three ofHuysmans's novels to illustrate aspects of the psychological theories of Heinz Kohut, contrasting these with traditional Freudian psychoanalysis.
I...
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Joris Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Critical Essay by Bettina L. Knapp
