Huysmans

[ wees-mahns ]

/ wisˈmɑ̃s /

Jo·ris Karl

[zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/, Charles Marie Georges Huysmans,1848–1907, French novelist.

Example sentences from the Web for huysmans

Huysmans, then as later the disciple of Naturalism pushed to its extreme limit, praised a nude of his because it was ugly.

Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art |John Gould Fletcher
Huysmans's literary and artistic preferences are catalogued with delicacy and erudition.

Egoists |James Huneker
A Rebours, notwithstanding Huysmans's later pilgrimage to Canossa, he never excelled.

Egoists |James Huneker
He has read Huysmans too closely; books breed books, ideas and moods beget moods and ideas.

Egoists |James Huneker

However, on the note of a rapt devotion Huysmans ends his book.

Egoists |James Huneker

Huysmans

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Joris Karl (ʒɔris karl). 1848–1907, French novelist of the Decadent school, whose works include À rebours (1884)