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yhteensä 17 hakutulosta
Certain Artists
Certain Artists makes for compelling reading. Huysmans' idiosyncratic assessments throw light on his aesthetic preoccupations, past and present, and hint at the spiritual journey …
La-Bas
Due to its incendiary subject matter, this gripping novel caused quite a controversy upon its initial publication in France in 1891. La-Bas follows the character of a jaded …
Mammatumoren / Tumours of the Mammary
Against Nature (A Rebours)
Originally published in French under the title "e;A Rebours"e; in 1884 and translated into English in 1926, "e;Against Nature"e;, also known as "e;Against the …
La-Bas (Down There)
La-bas is a novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. The story follows the disillusioned and decadent Parisian writer, Durtal, as he becomes obsessed with the life …
Modern Art
First published in 1883, but never before translated into English, this collection of J.-K. Huysmans' art criticism reveals the author of Against Nature to be as combative in his …
Against the Grain
A rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English, is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Anti-hero Jean Des Esseintes despises the bourgeois society he lives in and …
LA -bas (Down There)
"e;La-Bas"e; is an 1891 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The story concerns Durtal, a man disgusted by the shallowness and decadence of the world within …
Cathedral
Architecture lovers and Francophiles, rejoice. French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans' novel set at the famed cathedral at Chartres contains such detailed descriptions of the site's …
Saint Lydwine of Schiedam
St. Lydwine was bedridden from age 15, when she broke a rib, endured a lifelong illness which was recognized to be of supernatural origin. Her body became covered with sores and …
Seeing All Things Whole
Kagawa Toyohiko was one of the best-known evangelists and social reformers of the twentieth century. Founder of several religious, educational, social welfare, medical, financial, …