Parisian Sketches
Book Description
No one, not even Toulouse-Lautrec, was so tireless a tracker of Paris's genius loci as Huysmans. Like many of his radical contemporaries, he was obsessed by the idea of beauty within the ugliness of back-street Paris, by the thought that the distortions of depravity presented a truer picture of our spiritual nature than conventional religion or revolutionary excess. The excellent introduction to t... More
Book Information
Publisher | Dedalus Limited |
Binding | Kindle Edition (4 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 200 |
ISBN-10 | B008UYGSWC |
Publication Date | 08/04/2012 |
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About J. K. Huysmans (Author) : J. K. Huysmans is a published author of young adult books. A published credit of J. K. Huysmans is Parisian Sketches (Dedalus European Classics).
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