cogny

J. K. Huysmans a la recherche de l’unité
Pierre Cogny
Paris: Librairie Nizet
1953

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Pierre Cogny’s perceptive and comprehensive study of Huysmans’ spiritual and intellectual development, relating the disaprate phases of his work, whether Naturalism, pessemism, dandyism, occultism or mysticism, to his spiritual problems. In a review of the book in 1954, Robert Baldick described the book as one of the best general works on Huysmans in spite of a number of errors and omissions.


This copy is one of 25 numbered copies printed on offset régent and includes a dedication to Jean Jacquinot from the author.