Joris-Karl Huysmans

The charms of a great venereal flower, grown in a bed of sacrilege, reared in a hot-house of impiety.

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans.

Quotes

  • Ici, elle était vraiment fille; elle obéissait à son tempérament de femme ardente et cruelle; elle vivait, plus raffinée et plus sauvage, plus exécrable et plus exquise; elle réveillait plus énergiquement les sens en léthargie de l’homme, ensorcelait, domptait plus sûrement ses volontés, avec son charme de grande fleur vénérienne, poussée dans des couches sacrilèges, élevée dans des serres impies.
    • Here she was a true harlot, obedient to her passionate and cruel female temperament; here she came to life, more refined yet more savage, more hateful yet more exquisite than before; here she roused the sleeping senses of the male more powerfully, subjugated his will more surely with her charms — the charms of a great venereal flower, grown in a bed of sacrilege, reared in a hot-house of impiety.
    • À rebours (1884) ch. 5 (tr. Robert Baldick, 1959)
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