The Vatard sisters / J.-K. Huysmans ; translated by James C. Babcock.

By:

Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907

Contributor(s):

Babcock, James C

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 26.Publication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1983.Description: 1 online resource (183 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813163475
0813163471

Uniform titles:

Sœurs Vatard. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vatard Sisters.DDC classification:

843/.8 23

LOC classification:

PQ2309.H4

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty.

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.

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Translation of: Les sœurs Vatard.

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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.

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