The Vatard Sisters by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Overview: Dedalus European Classics; first published in 1879
A powerful and outstanding work" – Gustave Flaubert
“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 is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and cafe-concerts…and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters’ bedroom, have a visual immediacy…a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans’ work…"¨- Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) is now recognized as one of the most challenging and innovative figures in European literature and an acknowledged principal architect of the fin-de-siècle imagination. He was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours and Là-Bas.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
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