Jane Gary Harris, tr. Jane Gary Harris and Constance Link (London: Harvill, 1991), p. 100.

8. Quoted in Robert Baldick, The Life of J.-K. Huysmans (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955), p. 27. Baldick’s biography is still a key reference work for modern Huysmans amateurs and scholars.

9. André Breton, Anthologie de l’humour noire, Oeuvres complètes, vol. II, ed. Bonnet et al. (Paris: Pléiade, 1992), p. 997.

10. Léon Bloy, ‘Les Représailles du Sphinx’, Le Chat Noir, 14 June 1884.

11. James Joyce, ‘Realism and Idealism in English Literature’, Occasional, Critical and Political Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 173.

12. The Damned (Là-Bas), tr. Terry Hale (London: Penguin, 2001).

13. The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister. Selected Letters of J. K. Huysmans, tr. and ed. Barbara Beaumont (London: Athlone, 1989), p. 48.

14. Ibid., p. 46.

15. Ibid., p. 55.

16. Ibid., p. 72.

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