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Joris-Karl Huysmans

1848 - 1907

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Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (US: , French: [ʃaʁl maʁi ʒɔʁʒ ɥismɑ̃s]; 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans (pronounced [ʒɔʁis kaʁl -], variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel À rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joris-Karl Huysmans has received more than 507,116 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Joris-Karl Huysmans is the 457th most popular writer (down from 430th in 2019), the 525th most popular biography from France (down from 473rd in 2019) and the 81st most popular French Writer.

Joris-Karl Huysmans is most famous for his book A Rebours, which is also translated as Against the Grain. It was published in 1884 and is considered to be one of the first examples of the Decadent movement.

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.83

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  • 2.69

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Joris-Karl Huysmans ranks 457 out of 5,794. Before him are Henri Barbusse, Sayyid Qutb, Lysias, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Louisa May Alcott, and Herta Müller. After him are Harold Pinter, Tulsidas, Wu Cheng'en, Thomas Paine, Statius, and J. M. G. Le Clézio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Joris-Karl Huysmans ranks 7. Before him are Paul Gauguin, Octave Mirbeau, Vilfredo Pareto, Gottlob Frege, Otto Lilienthal, and Gustave Caillebotte. After him are Otto of Bavaria, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Tōgō Heihachirō, Hugo de Vries, Wyatt Earp, and Arthur Balfour. Among people deceased in 1907, Joris-Karl Huysmans ranks 9. Before him are Sully Prudhomme, Klara Hitler, Oscar II of Sweden, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Hector Malot, and Henri Moissan. After him are Alfred Jarry, Asaph Hall, Giosuè Carducci, Marcellin Berthelot, Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joris-Karl Huysmans ranks 525 out of 5,234. Before him are Henri Barbusse (1873), Alexandre Cabanel (1823), René Laennec (1781), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786), and Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550). After him are Marcel Mauss (1872), Chilperic I (539), Rashi (1040), Genevieve (423), Antipope Clement VII (1342), and Marcel Marceau (1923).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Joris-Karl Huysmans ranks 81. Before him are Jacques Hébert (1757), André Maurois (1885), Alfred de Musset (1810), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), Pierre de Marivaux (1688), and Henri Barbusse (1873). After him are J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Louis Aragon (1897), Gérard de Nerval (1808), Anaïs Nin (1903), Boris Vian (1920), and Jules Michelet (1798).

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