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Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ""lewd but exact"" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by... Read Full Overview

"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist... Read Full Overview

Ses narines etranges flairaient en fremissant ce qu'il y a de nauseabond dans le monde. L'ecoeurant fumet des gargotes, l'acre encens frelate, les odeurs fades ou infectes des bouges et des asiles de nuit, tout ce qui revoltait ses sens excitait son genie. On eut dit que le degoutant... Read Full Overview

Joris-Karl Huysmans, nom d'usage de Charles Marie Georges Huysmans, est un crivain et critique d'art fran ais, n le 5 f vrier 1848 Paris, et mort dans la m me ville le 12 mai 1907. Il passe toute son enfance dans cette maison. Il fit toute sa carri re au minist re de l'Int... Read Full Overview

Les Soeurs Vatard est-il un roman naturaliste ? Autant que Marthe, cette Histoire d'une fille parue en 1876, plus qu'En M nage et Vau-l'eau, Les Soeurs Vatard affiche d'embl e son appartenance cette litt rature putride que Louis Ulbach d non ait en 1868 la lecture de Germinie... Read Full Overview

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This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity... Read Full Overview

Deux heures du matin sonn rent. C line fit sa soeur cette inepte plaisanterie qui consiste placer son doigt pr s du nez d'une personne endormie et la r veiller brusquement. D sir e frappa sa narine gauche contre l'index de C line. - Que c'est b te cria-t-elle. Les femmes... Read Full Overview

Est-elle b te de suivre un homme qui la bat c'est moi qui le ficherais en plan et elles-m mes arrivaient, le lendemain, avec un pochon ou des ravines sur le visage et d fendaient nergiquement leur ma tre alors que les autres le traitaient de brigand et de l che - et les... Read Full Overview

M. mile Zola fait cole, et les disciples du ma tre, qui ne l galent pas en talent, le d passent de beaucoup en extravagances orduri res, en folies naturalistes. Voici, par exemple, un belge, M. J. K. Huysmans, dont la plume d vergond e ne recule devant rien ...]. Les deux... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We... Read Full Overview