SOURCE: "The Works," in The Image ofHuysmans, edited by Brian R. Banks, AMS Press, 1990, pp. 83-139.
In the following essay, Banks provides a survey of Huysmans's fiction written during his Naturalist, Decadent, and Catholic phases.
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