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The Cathedral
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R917
Discovery Miles 9 170
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En route (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R1,014
Discovery Miles 10 140
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La-bas (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Keene Wallace
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R729
Discovery Miles 7 290
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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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L'oblat (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R1,013
Discovery Miles 10 130
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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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R781
Discovery Miles 7 810
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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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En Route
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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R886
Discovery Miles 8 860
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Against Nature (Paperback)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Theo Cuffe; Introduction by Lucy Sante
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R460
R384
Discovery Miles 3 840
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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