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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 26.

Studies in Romance Languages ; 26

Standardized Title:

Soeurs Vatard. English

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University of Kentucky Press, 1983.

Language Note:

English

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,

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813194684

0813194687

9780813163475

0813163471

OCLC:

557560690