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57. HUYSMANS - A Rebours

January 08, 2018 by John Mitchinson
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In a special edition of the Backlisted podcast recorded at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, John and Andy are joined by the bookstore's owner Sylvia Whitman and author Adam Biles to discuss Huysmans' novel of aesthetic isolation A Rebours.

Books mentioned:

  • The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it : A John Murray Original - Jessie Greengrass

  • Sight - Jessie Greengrass

  • Attrib. and other stories - Eley Williams

  • Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett

  • Eve's Hollywood - Eve Babitz

  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  • Blaise Cendrars

  • The Life of J.-K. Huysmans - Robert Baldick

  • La-Bas : (Down There);  En Route - Joris Karl Huysmans

  • Submission - Michel Houellebecq

  • The Genius of the Future: Essays in French Art Criticism - Anita Brookner (also published as Romanticism And Its Discontents)

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