Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Joris-Karl Huysmans is a French, critic writer art, born with Paris the February 5th 1848 and died in the same city the May 12th 1907.

Biography

Joris-Karl Huysmans goes down from a long line of Flemish painters. It is registered with the civil statue in the francized form of its name: Georges-Charles Huysmans . The majority of its works were published - and continue to be it - in the shortened form of J-K. Huysmans .

After a “youth of humiliation and breakdown” (the remarriage of his/her mother with the business man protesting Jules Og; his/her father having died on June 24th, 1856), it continues a career of civil servant during thirty years.

He publishes in account of author in 1874 a collection of poems entitled Drageoir with spices which is republished and renamed the following year to drageoir It with the spices . An article on the Pole-axe and a novel, the Sisters Vatard (1879), are worth to him the friendship of Emile Zola and lead it to take part in the publication in 1880 of a collective collection entitled the Evenings of Médan , genuine proclamation in act of the naturalism, where it inserts Sac into the back . Its works then paint dull existences and an insipid daily life in In Household (1881) and With vau-l' water (published with share in 1882). Already its pessimism and its dislike for a made up modern world appear “rogues and imbeciles”.

With wrong way (1884) breaks clearly with esthetics naturalist; the “tendencies towards the artifice” of the hero, Of Esseintes , are, “at the bottom, from the dashes towards an ideal”. Another character, Durtal ( Over there , 1891), expresses also the evolution which Huysmans knows; this satanic stage, where mix Occultisme and sensuality, precedes its conversion with the Christian faith ( the Cathedral , 1898 and Oblat , 1903) to which brought esthetic concerns: the writer, indeed, comes to the Catholicism, attracted by the art which it had founded , as it had been allured by the talent of the Impressionniste S (Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Odilon Redon) of which it is made the defender in the Modern art (1883).

At the end of a difficult evolution, Huysmans seeks “to reach them in-on this side and after”, to make a “spiritualistic naturalism” while keeping its taste of the believed detail, the rare terms and the vehement brutality of the style, “the packed and nervous language of realism”.

It is withdrawn at the bénédictines with Paris. One discovers to him a cancer of the jaw in 1905. In accordance with its religious convictions, it decides to accept the pain and anything to make to relieve it. He dies two years later, the May 12th 1907 under conditions of physical pains atrocious. He is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse to Paris. Its executor was his friend Lucien Descaves.

Work

Modern editions

  • Drageoir with the spices , ED. Patrice Locmant, Champion, 2003

See too

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