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1846–1907 France

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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Here she was a true harlot, obedient to her passionate and cruel female temperament; here she came to life, more refined yet more savage, more hateful yet more exquisite than before; here she roused the sleeping senses of the male more powerfully, subjugated his will more surely with her charms — the charms of a great venereal flower, grown in a bed of sacrilege, reared in a hot-house of impiety.

À rebours (1884)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joris-Karl Huysmans (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.