Talk:Joris-Karl Huysmans

message: This page really needs some work.  Huysmans' Légion d'honneur was awarded for his work as a civil servant not for being a war hero.
The 3/29/04 rewriting of this article is an attempt provide a somewhat fuller description of Huysmans.  More can be done.
I'm gradually trying to expand this page, but it might be a slow process.--Folantin 18:39, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: I removed the LGBT Project template. Huysmans was heterosexual, though the main character in one of his books, A rebours, was
bisexual. Can you clarify why this was added here? Thanks. --Folantin 08:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry I've just read this after putting up the template. I was told he was gay when I was at school. This here  seems to suggest he was gay too.Zigzig20s 21:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That link is incorrect. Huysmans was heterosexual as Baldick's definitive biography makes clear. The protagonist of his most famous novel A rebours is a bisexual believed to be (partly) based on the aesthete Robert de Montesquiou (also the model for Proust's Baron de Charlus). I'd suggest your tag would be better attached to the talk page of the article for that novel. Thanks. --Folantin 06:59, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update. I've just done this for you. --Folantin 07:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: I've just seen the biographical infobox for this article and frankly it looks pretty silly with its two French flags. Would it be better to delete the box keeping the picture. Thanks. --Kleinzach 03:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: The more I read about Huysmans, the more I am struck by the influence of Schopenhauer on his life. Anyone who has read Schopenhauer's work should immediately understand the influence. I have just read that Huysmans stated, "Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness." This is a direct restatement of Schopenhauer's doctrine that art and saintliness are the two ways that humans can achieve salvation and deliverance from the evil and pain of the world. If this is combined with Huysmans's religious conversion and his attempts to become a monkish hermit, then the influence becomes very apparent. Schopenhauer extolled religious ascetics, such as the Benedictine Trappists. Huysmans's behavior is very similar to that of Tolstoy in this respect.Lestrade (talk) 16:49, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: See En route (novel) for Huysman's disgust with debauchery.98.110.87.71 (talk) 02:30, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
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message: His early death from oral cancer was most likely the result of smoking tobacco.Lestrade (talk) 17:50, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
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message: Is it possible to have names of his works translated into English?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.87.205.118 (talk) 21:15, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Titles are often cryptic puzzles, not just this author it is generally true. So not really translatable, the best thing is to give the title used for the English publication: .eg À rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature), "Le Drageoir aux épices" is "a spice bowl" (this is not for cooking, the aroma fills the room), also the book has got "spicy" contents. QuentinUK (talk) 02:49, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of works 

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message: The infobox shows Huysmans born under the 2nd Republic, which was not declared until months after he was born. JacquesDelaguerre (talk) 19:06, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second Republic?