# Joris-Karl Huysmans

> He spent three decades as a French bureaucrat and wrote novels so linguistically strange, so steeped in pessimism and Schopenhauer, that À rebours became the breviary of Decadence — then he veered toward God and mapped the road from Satanism research to oblate life in a monastery.

*French novelist and art critic (1848–1907)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1848-02-05
- **Died:** 1907-05-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans published under the pen name Joris-Karl and worked in the French civil service for 30 years to pay the rent. He started as a Naturalist writer, then published À rebours in 1884 — a novel whose idiosyncratic language and erudition made him the face of the Decadent movement. His deep pessimism pulled him toward Schopenhauer, but the trajectory bent: Là-bas in 1891 sent his character Durtal into research on Satanism and the child-murderer Gilles de Rais, and the Durtal trilogy that followed — En route, La cathédrale, L'Oblat — traced a spiritual conversion to Catholicism. La cathédrale, set at Chartres and devoted to the iconography of its cathedral, became his bestseller; the royalties let him quit the civil service. In 1901 he became an oblate at the Benedictine Abbey at Ligugé, the same fate he'd written for Durtal.

## Fame
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## Topics
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