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Joris-Karl Huysmans on Women

1846–1907 France

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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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