Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans was born on Feb 05, 1848 in France. Joris-Karl Huysmans's big-screen debut came with L'inhumaine directed by Marcel L'Herbier in 1924. Joris-Karl Huysmans is known for Against Nature directed by Jon Story, Peter Broad stars as Barber and Sadie Chave as Courtesan 4. The upcoming new movie Joris-Karl Huysmans plays is Against Nature which will be released on Mar 03, 2006.

Joris-Karl Huysmans was the only son of a French mother and a Dutch father. At 20 he began a long career in the Ministry of the Interior, writing many of his novels on official time. His early work, influenced by contemporary naturalist novelists. His major novels epitomize successive phases of the aesthetic, spiritual, and intellectual life of late 19th-century France. Huysmans' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition. First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of "À rebours" (1884). His work expressed his deep pessimism, which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.