Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Pseudonyme de Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans. - Écrivain et critique d'art. - Fonctionnaire au ministère de l'intérieur. - A écrit en 1885 pour la revue "Les hommes d'aujourd'hui" sous le pseudonyme "A. Meunier"

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found: Wikipedia, via WWW, August 12, 2013 (Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans born February 5, 1848, died May 12, 1907) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans). He is most famous for the novel À rebours (published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by a 30-year career in the French civil service. He used the name Joris-Karl Huysmans when he published his writing, as a way of honoring his father's ancestry. His first major publication was a collection of prose poems)