Joris-Karl Huysmans (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Although writing fiction was the prime vocation of Joris-Karl Huysmans throughout his active career of some thirty years, his novels were regularly interspersed with other kinds of writing, mostly journalistic and, during his final decade, primarily religious. His first publication was not a novel but a collection of short journalistic pieces written in the lyric style of Charles Baudelaire’s prose poems: Le Drageoir aux épices (1874; A Dish of...
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