The Life of J.- K. Huysmans (Dark Master Series)
Contributors: Brendan King (Foreword)
Edition: 1st Dedalus Ed. / edition
Publisher: Dedalus,
Published: July 7, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9781903517437
Subjects: Biography: general; French Literature; Biography And Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; French; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; European - French; (Joris-Karl),; 1848-1907; 19th century; Biography; Huysmans, J. -K.; Novelists, French
Description: "Like Froude's biography of Carlyle, Holroyd's Shaw, and Ellmann's Joyce, Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago, Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling narrative of Huysmans' life and work in all its various phases - from the Naturalism of the 1870s to the Decadence of the 1880s, and from the occult vogue of the 1890s to the Catholic Revival of the turn of the century - and it is written with such impeccable scholarship that it is still relied on today as regards matters of fact and detail. For this new edition - the first time the biography has been reprinted in English -Baldick's notes have been extensively revised and updated by Brendan King to take account of new developments and publications in the field of Huysmansian studies." --Publisher description.