Joris Karl Huysmans (Huysmans Joris Karl)

(1848-1907)
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was born February 5, 1848. His father was a Dutchman, his mother - French. Receiving education at home, in 1866, Huysmans became an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he served for 32 year until the resignation. In 1874, Huysmans published his first book - Vase with spices (Le Drageoir pices), a collection of prose poems in the spirit of C. Baudelaire. Under the influence of the then three masters of French literature - E.de Goncourt, . E. Zola and Flaubert - write a novel in March, . story of a prostitute (Marthe, . histoire d'une fille, . 1876), . The first book about the Public wench of a brothel run by the state; Wataru Sisters (Les Soeurs Vatard, . 1879), . Social news in the manner of Zola, Bed and Board (En Mnage, . 1881), . indebted to Flaubert Sentimental Education,
. Soon Huysmans Medansky entered the circle, but he was too independent writer for a long time to stay in pupils Zola. After a short novel by the flow (A vau-l'eau, 1882), with bleak pessimism, narrating the misadventures official, he impressed the literary world of books contrary (A Rebours, 1884), received the name of 'catechism of decadence'. The main hero is an aristocrat 'end of the century' ( 'fin-de-sicle')
. In breaking with Zola, Huysmans published novels at the pier (En Rade, 1887), a naturalistic depiction of scenes of village life and the surreal in the description of dreams, and, at the bottom (L-Bas, 1891), the image of Satanism in its medieval and modern versions
. Central character, . Dyurtal, . appears later in the novels of the way (En Route, . 1895), . stories Huysmans return to the bosom of the Catholic Church after a stay in a Trappist monastery, . Cathedral (La Cathdrale, . 1898), . almost entirely devoted to Chartres Cathedral, . and novice (L'Oblat, . 1903), . slightly veiled chronicle of probation Huysmans in the Benedictine monastery after his resignation from public service,


. Among his other books include Paris sketches (Croquis parisiens, . 1880), . devoted to various aspects of city life; Modern Art (L'Art moderne, . 1883), . in which he promoted Impressionism; St. Ludwin of Schiedam (Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam, . 1901), . essay in the genre of 'Lives', . and Lourdes crowd (Les Foules de Lourdes, . 1906), . where praise piety and bichuetsya themselves the owners of the city of passion for wealth,
. Novels Huysmans accurately reflect the evolution of intellectual and artistic life in France in the late 19. Thus they can be considered as a detailed biography of the writer. Huysmans died in Paris on May 13, 1907.