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The Vatard Sisters (Dedalus European Classics)
The Vatard Sisters - Dedalus European Classics Author:J. -K Huysmans "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 restau... more »rants and café-concerts?and 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?"?Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future« less