The Vatard Sisters (eBook)

J.-K. Huysmans (Autor)

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2021
184 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9468-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a "e;lewd but exact"e; 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 "e;his fervent admirer and devoted friend."e;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 "e;Dsire, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large, pale eyes that were somewhat crossed, plump without being fat, attractive and clean; and Cline, the carouser, a big girl with clear eyes and hair the color of straw, a solid, vigorous girl whose blood raced and danced in her veins."e; The two are part of that "e;bizarre race of young women"e; who work as bookbinders, whose lives revolve around the gaslighted bindery works, the gaudy shop windows, and cheap wineshops that Huysmans describes with minute and colorful detail. His precisely observed sketches show that Naturalism as practiced by Buysmans had none of Zola' s emphasis on "e;scientific"e; determinism, but centered primarily on the faithful rendering of what he described as "e;living persons in real milieus."e;The Vatard Sisters is the first English translation of Les Soeurs Vatard.

Autor

James C. Babcock is professor of French at Western Kentucky University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Romance Languages
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Romance Languages
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Romance Languages
• Übersetzer: James C. Babcock
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: french novels translated in english • modern french novels in english • naturalist french novels • novels about industrial workers in france • novels about paris • novels about parisian fin de siecle life • novels about sisters • novels about working class women
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-9468-7 / 0813194687
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9468-4 / 9780813194684