The Cathedral

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Overview

The Cathedral was written in the year 1898 by Joris-Karl Huysmans. This book is one of the most popular novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789635221622
Publisher:	Booklassic
Publication date:	07/07/2015
Series:	The Cathedral
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	257
File size:	679 KB

About the Author

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (1848 - 1907 in Paris) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by a 30-year career in the French civil service. Huysmans' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition. First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of À rebours. His work expressed his deep pessimism, which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. In later years, his novels reflected his study of Catholicism, religious conversion and becoming an oblate. He discussed the iconography of Christian architecture at length in La cathédrale (1898), set at Chartres and with its cathedral as the focus of the book.