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

Author
Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907
Uniform Title
Sœurs Vatard. English
Published
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1983]
Copyright Date
©1983
Physical Description
1 online resource (183 pages).
Additional Creators
Babcock, James C.
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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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ISBN
9780813163475 (electronic bk.)
0813163471 (electronic bk.)
0813153131
9780813153131
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Form of work
Fiction
Note
Translation of: Les sœurs Vatard.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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