J. K. Huysmans

Georges Charles Marie Huysmans was born in Paris in 1848, but always signed his works with a Flemish version of his name, JORIS-KARL, inspired by her father's ancestry, coming from a line of artists. A friend and disciple of Zola and Maupassant, he would soon go beyond school naturalist, for its style and uniqueness. It is characterized by an expression and a continuous devotion to artistic themes, which permeate his work. His surprising adherence to Catholicism scandalized literary circles Parisians, whom he abandons when he retires to live as an oblate brother in Igny en le Marne. After being expelled from the religious orders, he returned to Paris, where he died, in 1907, of a prolonged illness, endured with self-denial Christian. Huysmans' authenticity and the originality of his style lead to to this day is the object of a cult that goes beyond the literary sphere.