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# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:08:07.980Z

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description: "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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.