1848–1907 · French novelist and art critic
Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans was a French novelist of the Decadent movement who began in Zola's naturalist circle before turning toward mysticism and, ultimately, Catholicism.
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About Joris-Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans was a French novelist of the Decadent movement who began in Zola's naturalist circle before turning toward mysticism and, ultimately, Catholicism. Là-bas, his unsettling exploration of Satanism in nineteenth-century Paris, is interwoven with the story of the medieval knight Gilles de Rais.
- Born
- 1848
- Died
- 1907
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