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Excerpt from Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam La vie de sainte Lydwine a été successivement écrite par trois religieux qui furent, tous les trois, ses contemporains: Jan Gerlac, son parent, sacristain du monastère augustin de Windesem. Il vécut, pendant de longues années, auprès de la sainte, dans sa maison même, et il nous raconte de visu son existence. Jan Brugman, frère mineur de l'Observance. II reprit l'histoire de Gerlac qu'il traduisit du ...

Der dekadente Ästhet Jean Floressas des Esseintes ist der letzte Vertreter eines uralten französischen Adelsgeschlechts. Abgestoßen vom Leben in der feinen Pariser Gesellschaft zieht er sich in sein Haus am Stadtrand von Paris zurück und widmet sich dort ausschließlich seinen extravaganten künstlerischen Neigungen. Überzeugt davon, dass der menschliche Geist der Natur überlegen ist, zielt sein radikaler Stilwillen auf nichts weniger als die Er...

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The story of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He attempts to escape it by studying medieval topics and plans to write a biography about the 15th century murderer and devil-worshipper Gilles de Rais. Through his contacts in Paris with Dr. Johannes, (modelled after Joseph-Antoine Boullan, a French Roman Catholic priest accused of Satanism), Durtal discovers that Satanism is ...

Die minimale Handlung kreist um einen dekadenten und neurotischen jungen Aristokraten namens Jean Floressas Des Esseintes. Dieser zieht sich zunehmend aus der für ihn unbefriedigenden sozialen Realität zurück. Er spinnt sich in seinem Vorstadthäuschen in eine artifizielle Welt des Ästhetizismus und Mystizismus ein und landet allmählich am Rande geistiger Umnachtung. Der Roman war eigentlich als naturalistische Studie eines erblich belasteten u...

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Excerpt from De ToutEt cependant°ce quartier, jadis si placide et quasi-désert, est devenu une bruyante halle! A mesure qu'il s'est étendu, le bon-marché, que je connus minuscule, a attiré tout autour de lui les foules et c'est maintenant un tohu - bohu de voi tures et de tramways, un va - ct-vient affairé de paquets et de femmes, mais, si vous franchissez la porte de l'un de ces deux monastères, c'est fini, Paris n'est plus, vous êtes à la ca...

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Excerpt from Croquis Parisiens, A Vau-l'Eau, Un Dilemme Là-bas, roman. 42° édition I vol. Ia-i6. En Rade, roman. Io° édition l'art madame, critique d'art. 4° édition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

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Excerpt from Against the Grain N trying to represent the man who wrote the extraordinary books grouped around A Rebours and En Route, I find myself carried back to the decline of the Latin world. I re call those restless Africans who were drawn into the vortex of decadent Rome, who ab sorbed its corruptions with all the barbaric fervour of their race, and then with a more natural impetus of that youthful fervour threw themselves into the youn...

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Against the Grain's narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation."There was only one living scion of this family which had once been so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of ...

Published in 1891, LA-BAS is Huysmans' best-selling novel, its success was due, in part, to its sensational contents (descriptions of Satanism in late 1880 France.) It is in this novel that Huysmans' character, Durtal, is introduced for the first time. This character is thought to be a semi-autobiographical depiction of the author and is used in his next three books which chart Durtal's (and Huysmans') search for religious truths and his ultim...

There was only one living scion of this family which had once been so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of the Ile-de-France and La Brie. The Duc Jean was a slender, nervous young man of thirty, with hollow cheeks, cold, steel-blue eyes, a straight, thin nose and delicate hands." Thus we are introduced to the character of Des Esseintes in a novel that has been banned and censored for years, but still lives on as being one of th...