Domesticity
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Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Huysmans’ third novel, first published in French in 1881, signalled his turn toward a "new naturalism" that laid out the negative consequences of determinism. 'Domesticity' tells the tale of two men struggling between the urges of the body and the urges of the soul, & with the failure of matrimony or artistic endeavour to fulfil the needs of either. More than a psychological character study it stands as one of the most memorable portraits of late 19th-century Paris & its sad, futile affairs of the heart.Earning a wage through a career in the French civil service, Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907) quietly explored the extremes of human nature and artifice through a series of books that influenced a number of literary movements: from the grimy naturalism of Marthe to the cornerstone of the decadent movement, 'Against Nature' and the Satanist classic 'Down There', to the dream-ridden Surrealist favorite 'Becalmed'.
ISBN 9781962728034. Wakefield Press. pb. 320 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.
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Huysmans’ third novel, first published in French in 1881, signalled his turn toward a "new naturalism" that laid out the negative consequences of determinism. 'Domesticity' tells the tale of two men struggling between the urges of the body and the urges of the soul, & with the failure of matrimony or artistic endeavour to fulfil the needs of either. More than a psychological character study it stands as one of the most memorable portraits of late 19th-century Paris & its sad, futile affairs of the heart.Earning a wage through a career in the French civil service, Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907) quietly explored the extremes of human nature and artifice through a series of books that influenced a number of literary movements: from the grimy naturalism of Marthe to the cornerstone of the decadent movement, 'Against Nature' and the Satanist classic 'Down There', to the dream-ridden Surrealist favorite 'Becalmed'.
ISBN 9781962728034. Wakefield Press. pb. 320 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.
available