The Vatard sisters /:

Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ""lewd but exact"" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola b...

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Main Author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907
Other Authors: Babcock, James C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1983.
Series:Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 26.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ""lewd but exact"" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by ""his fervent admirer and devoted friend.""In it, Huysmans vividly depicts the scene that for his generation of French writers stood for the contemporary world: the brutal, teeming life of the industrial quarters of Paris in the 1870s. Huysmans' Vatard sisters are ""Désirée, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large.
Item Description:Translation of: Les surs Vatard.
Physical Description:1 online resource (183 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780813163475
0813163471

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