biography
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Huysmans, Joris Karl
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originally Charles Marie Georges Huysmans
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pronunciation:
[hoysmahnz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1848–1907)
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| biography:
| Novelist of Dutch origin, born in Paris, France. His books reflect many aspects of the spiritual and intellectual life of late 19th-c France. His best-known works are À rebours (1884, Against the Grain), a study of aesthetic decadence (which influenced Oscar Wilde); the controversial Là-bas (1891, Down There), which dealt with devil-worship; and En route (1892), an account of his return to Catholicism. |
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