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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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culture · French novelist and art critic (1848–1907) · writer · art critic · novelist · author · literary critic · also Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jorris-Karl Huysmans, J.-K. Huysmans, Jaris-Karl Huysmans, Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans, Joris Karl Huysmans
Born 5 February 1848 · Died 12 May 1907 · Q210798
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Dry curaçao, for example, was like the clarinet, with its penetrating and velvety note: kümmel matched the oboe with its sonorous nasal resonance; menthe and anisette were like the flute, at once honeyed and peppery, whimpering but muted; whereas kirsch, to complete the orchestra, is a wild trumpet blast; gin and whisky assault the palate with the strident blare of their cornets and trombones; marc-brandy raises the roof with its deafening hubbub of tubas.
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1907).
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“Dry curaçao, for example, was like the clarinet, with its penetrating and velvety note: kümmel matched the oboe with its sonorous nasal resonance; menthe and anisette were like the flute, at once honeyed and peppery, whimpering but muted; whereas kirsch, to complete the orchestra, is a wild trumpet blast; gin and whisky assault the palate with the strident blare of their cornets and trombones; marc-brandy raises the roof with its deafening hubbub of tubas.”
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As Parisian Sketches; published by Dedalus
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By Agnes Hastings as Saint Lydwine of Schiedam London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1907).
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Died 1907-05-12.
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And was interred in the cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
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Huysmans was diagnosed with cancer of the mouth
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His admirers persuaded the French government to promote him to Officier de la Légion d'honneur for his literary achievements
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Huysmans published his third and last book on art, "Trois primitifs ('Three Primitive Painters'), his studies of Matthias Grünewald, the 'Master of Flémalle' (now generally considered to be Robert Campin), and the unknow
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Made possible by the commercial success of his novel, La cathédrale, Huysmans planned to leave Paris and move to Ligugé
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1893).
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Huysmans was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1892 for his work with the civil service.
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1887, 1891, can be found, collected and published six years after Huysmans's death, in book form, in On Huysmans' Tomb
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And in a revised version in 1880 in Les Soirées de Médan)
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“It takes me two years to 'document' myself for a novel – two years of hard work. That is the trouble with the naturalistic novel – it requires so much documentary care. I never make, like Zola, a plan for a book. I know how it will begin and how it will end – that's all. When I finally get to writing it, it goes along rather fast – assez vite.”
Born 1848-02-05.
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It takes me two years to 'document' myself for a novel – two years of hard work. That is the trouble with the naturalistic novel – it requires so much documentary care. I never make, like Zola, a plan for a book. I know how it will begin and how it will end – that's all. When I finally get to writing it, it goes along rather fast – assez vite.
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