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Vatard sisters

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 Mich.

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  • "Un des premiers romans de l'auteur, écrit à l'époque où, disciple de Zola, il s'essayait au naturalisme. Peinture minutieuse des faubourgs populaires parisiens, description impitoyable du monde ouvrier de cette fin du XIXe siècle, ce livre nous fait connaître les ateliers et les guinguettes, côtoyer les ouvrières et les voyous, vivre les petites amours et les vengeances."
  • "This novel tells the story of two sisters who work in a Parisian book-binding factory. But the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts. 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."
  • "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 Mich."@en
  • "Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a ""lewd but exact"" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by ""his fervent admirer and devoted friend.""In it, Huysmans vividly depicts the scene that for his generation of French writers stood for the contemporary world: the brutal, teeming life of the industrial quarters of Paris in the 1870s. Huysmans' Vatard sisters are ""Désirée, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large, ..."
  • "Author's second novel, first published in 1879. Tells the story of two sisters working in a Parisian bookbinding factory, concentrating on the unhappy love affairs of the sisters, yet focusing on the vivid description of the milieu in which the characters live."

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  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść francuska"
  • "Translations"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "˜Theœ Vatard Sisters"
  • "The vatard sisters"
  • "Les Sœurs Vatard. Cinquième édition"
  • "Les sœurs Vatard"
  • "Les Soeurs Vatard"
  • "Vatard sisters"@en
  • "Les soeurs vatard"
  • "Les Sœurs Vatard"
  • "The Vatard sisters"@en
  • "The Vatard sisters"
  • "The Vatard Sisters"@en
  • "... Les sœurs Vatard"
  • "Les soeurs Vattard"
  • "Les soeurs Vatard"
  • "Les suœrs Vatard"

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