A Dilemma - by Joris Karl Huysmans (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Originally published as Un dilemme, 1888"--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' <i>A Dilemma</i> remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear a mirror to today's neoliberalist times as it did to the French fin-de-siècle. Written smack in-between Huysmans' most famous works--his 1881 <i>Against Nature</i>, which came to define the Decadent movement, and his 1891 exploration of Satanism, <i>Down There</i>--<i>A Dilemma</i> presents some of Huysmans' most memorable characters, including Madame Champagne, the self-appointed Parisian protector of women in need, and the carnal would-be sophisticate notary Le Ponsart, who wages a war of words with the bereft pregnant mistress of his deceased grandson with devastating consequences. In its unflinching portrayal of how authoritarian language can be used and abused as a weapon, this novella stands as Huysmans' indictment of the underlying crime of the novel itself: a language apparatus employed to maintain the appetites of the ruling class. <p/>Earning a wage through a career in the French civil service, <b>Joris-Karl Huysmans</b> (1848-1907) quietly explored the extremes of human nature and artifice through a series of books that influenced a number of different literary movements: from the grey and grimy Naturalism of books like <i>Marthe</i> and <i>Downstream</i> to the cornerstones of the Decadent movement, <i>Against Nature</i> and the Satanist classic <i>Down There</i>, the dream-ridden Surrealist favorite, <i>Becalmed</i>, and his Catholic novels, <i>The Cathedral</i> and <i>The Oblate</i>.
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