Brendan King
Vatard Sisters
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Story of 2 Parisian working-class sisters at the end of the 19thc A powerful and outstanding work. Gustave Flaubert The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window…
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Story of 2 Parisian working-class sisters at the end of the 19thc A powerful and outstanding work. Gustave Flaubert The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy...a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work... Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-909232-10-5
- EAN: 9781909232105
- Produktnummer: 14011670
- Verlag: Dedalus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 286 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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