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La Luxure et la Purité
Per Buvik
Oslo: Solum Verlag
1989

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Per Buvik's masterly study is now unfortunately almost impossible to find. Buvik deconstructs the myth that Huysmans' novels can be read as straight autobiography, and argues that to see Huysmans' characters simply as alter-egos of their author over-simplifies the scope and range of his work.