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The Vatard Sisters

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'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...â€â€¨Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future


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Publisher: Dedalus Ebooks

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  • ISBN: 9781909232105
  • Release date: June 3, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781909232105
  • File size: 1435 KB
  • Release date: June 3, 2013

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'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...â€â€¨Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future


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