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The Naturalistic Spirituality of Joris-Karl Huysmans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

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In the year of Huysmans' death, 1907, Léon Daudet wrote of him: “Il a jeté un pont entre le spiritualisme chrétien et le vocabulaire moderne.” In a brief panegyric paper, the critic merely defends Huysmans' continued use of a naturalistic style in his later Catholic novels, without analyzing the idea to any extent, either historically or stylistically.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 75 , Issue 4-Part1 , September 1960 , pp. 424 - 431
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1960

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References

1 A Propos de J. K. Huismans [sic] (Paris, 1947), p. S3. Given as an address in 1907.

2 Paris, Fasquelle, n.d. Contains “Préface, Ecrite vingt ans après le roman,” dated 1903. Hereafter, references to this edition of A Rebours are given as AR. Other works of Huysmans which are quoted directly (with publisher and date of publication) are: Lâ-Bos (Plon, 1949): L-B; En Route (Plon, 1947): ER; La Cathédrale (Plon, 1947): C; L'Oblat (Plon, 1950): O; Les Foules de Lourdes (Plon, 1947): FL; Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam (P.-V. Stock, 1901): not abbreviated.

3 Abbé Arthur Mugnier, J.-K. Huysmans à la Trappe (Paris, 1927), p. 11. Discussion of factors in Huysmans' conversion is limited to those directly pertinent to the present study. Sister Lucy, S.N.D.

4 See the excellent article by George A. Cevasco, “J.-K. Huysmans and the Impressionists,” JAAC, xvii (Dec. 19S8), 201–207.

The Naturalistic Spirituality of Huysmans

5 Trends and Styles in Twentieth Century French Literature (Washington, D. C, 1957), p. 160.

6 Quoted by Guy Chastel, J.-K. Huysmans et ses amis (Paris, 1957), p. 122.

7 La Phrase et le vocabulaire de J.-K. Huysmans (Paris, 1938), p. 79.

8 Italics mine; as also elsewhere, unless obviously otherwise. Sister Lucy, S.N.D.

9 Les Dernières Années de J.-K. Huysmans (Paris, 1941), p. 128.

10 Christiane Aimery, Joris-Karl Huysmans (Paris, 1956), p. 131.

11 Où passent des anges (Paris, 1947), p. 242.

12 J.-.K. Huysmans à la recherche de l'unité (Paris, 1953), p. 18.

13 Dom A. Du Bourg, Huysmans intime (Paris, 1908), p. 24.