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The Cathedral
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R951
Discovery Miles 9 510
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En route (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R1,052
Discovery Miles 10 520
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L'oblat (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R1,052
Discovery Miles 10 520
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"There was only one living scion of this family which had once been
so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of the
Ile-de-France and La Brie. The Duc Jean was a slender, nervous
young man of thirty, with hollow cheeks, cold, steel-blue eyes, a
straight, thin nose and delicate hands." Thus we are introduced to
the character of Des Esseintes in a novel that has been banned and
censored for years, but still lives on as being one of the finest
examples of the "decadent" literature written by "fin-de-siecle"
(late nineteenth century) writers. Oscar Wilde, himself, called the
novel "the Breviary of Decadence."
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The Cathedral (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Clara Bell
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R810
Discovery Miles 8 100
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The Virgin had appeared to two children on a hill. By another
coincidence, this Saturday was the eve of the Festival of Our Lady
of Seven Dolours. And she appeared as Our Lady of Tears in that
desert landscape of stubborn rocks and dismal hills. Weeping
bitterly, She had uttered reproofs and threats. The fame of this
event spread far and wide; frantic thousands scrambled up fearful
paths to a spot so high that trees could not grow there. Suddenly
the peaks parted, a wide opening brought the train out into broad
daylight; the scene lay clear before them, terrible on all sides.
"Le Drac " exclaimed the Abbe Gevresin, pointing to a sort of
liquid serpent at the bottom of the precipice, writhing and tossing
between rocks in the very jaws of the pit.
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La-bas (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Keene Wallace
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R756
Discovery Miles 7 560
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Published in 1891, LA-BAS is Huysmans' best-selling novel; its
success was due, in part, to its sensational contents (descriptions
of Satanism in late 1880 France.) It is in this novel that
Huysmans' character, Durtal, is introduced for the first time. This
character is thought to be a semi-autobiographical depiction of the
author and is used in his next three books which chart Durtal's
(and Huysmans') search for religious truths and his ultimate
conversion to Roman Catholicism. The journey begins with the
viewing of an extremely realistic painting: "In Germany, before a
Crucifixion by Matthaeus Grunewald, he had found what he was
seeking."
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En Route
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R920
Discovery Miles 9 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde
'It will be biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't give a damn!
It will be something nobody has ever done before.' The title page
of the first complete English translation of Against Nature
(published in the French as A Rebours) included the caption 'the
book that Dorian Gray loved and inspired Oscar Wilde.' It was,
declared Wilde, one of the best novels he had ever read. It is the
story of Jean des Esseintes, the last of a proud and noble family,
who retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois society and
leads a life based on cultivation of the senses through art. Des
Esseintes distills perfumes from the rarest oils and essences, he
creates a garden of poisonous flowers, sets gemstones in a
tortoise's gold-painted shell and plans to corrupt a street urchin
until he is degraded enough to commit murder. Des Esseintes'
aesthetic pilgrimage is described in minutely documented realistic
detail and was widely regarded as the guidebook of decadence. This
influential novel is now available in a new translation by Theo
Cuffe and includes a preface by Luc Sante.
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R1,513
Discovery Miles 15 130
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