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Joris-Karl Huysmans
AuthorBooks · Second hand1848-1907
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself by way of a 30-year career in the French civil service.
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Birth
1848
Death
1907
First book
1884
Years writing
142
Joris-Karl Huysmans is the pen name of Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans, who also used the pseudonym A. Meunier for some of his writings.
Despite his fame as a novelist, he spent 32 years of his life working as a clerk in the French Ministry of the Interior.
His masterpiece, À rebours, is considered a fundamental pillar of 19th-century decadent literature.
His literary career evolved from early naturalism to profound symbolist and Catholic literature following his religious conversion.
Born in Paris in 1848 to a Dutch lithographer and a teacher, his life was defined by his dedication to literature and art criticism.