Gegen den Strich
"...Continually dragging Mother Image by the hair or the feet down the worm-eaten staircase of terrified Syntax." (Léon Bloy, quoted in Robert Baldick, "The Life of J.-K. Huysmans"). Critical reviews by Léon Bloy of "À rebours," "En rade," and "Là-bas" published contemporaneously, in various journals or reviews, as Huysmans' novels came out over the years, in 1884, 1887, 1891, can be found, collected together and published 6 years after Huysmans' death, in book form, in "On Huysmans' Tomb."