Autor/-in: Huysmans J K & King Brendan

J. -K. Huysmans (1847-1907) began writing as a naturalist in the style of Zola. His early works excel in their descriptive ability and he is one of the greatest authors at describing the life of Paris and its surroundings as witnessed by his Parisian Sketches. He changed from being an obscure author and art critic to one of the most famous authors of his day with the publication of A Rebours in 1884. His novel about Satanism, La-Bas (1891) is surely the cult novel of the nineteenth century. It is the first of four novels about Huysmans alter ego Durtal