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A Dilemma eBook

By Joris-Karl Huysmans. Introduction and translation by Justin Vicari.


Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear a mirror to today's neoliberalist times as it did to the French fin-de-siècle. Written smack in-between Huysmans' most famous works—his 1881 Against Nature, which came to define the Decadent movement, and his 1891 exploration of Satanism, Down There—A Dilemma presents some of Huysmans' most memorable characters, including Madame Champagne, the self-appointed Parisian protector of women in need, and the carnal would-be sophisticate notary Le Ponsart, who wages a war of words with the bereft pregnant mistress of his deceased grandson with devastating consequences. In its unflinching portrayal of how authoritarian language can be used and abused as a weapon, this novella stands as Huysmans' indictment of the underlying crime of the novel itself: a language apparatus employed to maintain the appetites of the ruling class.

Earning a wage through a career in the French civil service, Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907) quietly explored the extremes of human nature and artifice through a series of books that influenced a number of different literary movements: from the grey and grimy Naturalism of books like Marthe and Downstream to the cornerstones of the Decadent movement, Against Nature and the Satanist classic Down There, the dream-ridden Surrealist favorite, Becalmed, and his Catholic novels, The Cathedral and The Oblate.

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A Dilemma

A DILEMMA
By Joris-Karl Huysmans. Introduction and translation by Justin Vicari.
WAKEFIELD PRESS
ISBN: 9781939663115 | US $12.95
Pub Date: 5/26/2015
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My Vibe
Bruges-la-Morte
Vercoquin and the Plankton
Everything Good Dies Here
An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
The Mill
The Illuminated; or The Precursors of Socialism
The Impersonal Adventure
The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
Potsdamer Platz, or, The Nights of the New Messiah
Malpertuis
Sens-Plastique
The Die Is Cast
A Nine-Year-Old Aviator
I Guess All We Have Is Freedom
Brief Lives of Idiots
Antilogy
Word Book
Rogomelec
The Great Nocturnal
Waystations of the Deep Night
The Emperor of China’s Ice
Intimate Negrociations
Orhan Pamuk: Balkon
The Cathedral of Mist
Bit Rot
Heart of Darkness
Sweating Blood
A Terrace in Rome
Rolling the R's
The Pig
Claudia Rankine
Gold
The Book Of Disappearances & The Book Of Tractations
The Historians: The Rise and Fall of Gestures Drama, Book 39
The Adventures of Percival
The Man Who Refused to Die
The Heresiarch & Co
Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo: Two Novels
Blue Octavo Notebooks
Dark Spring
Everybody's Autobiography
Hebdomeros & Other Writings
Maiden Voyage
Paris Peasant
The Adventures of Telemachus
The Education of the Stoic
The Hearing Trumpet
The Supermale
In Youth Is Pleasure
Last Nights of Paris
The Book of Disquiet
Johanna Drucker: Night Crawlers On The Web
Sibylle Berg: By The Way, Did I Ever Tell You...
Shanghai Dancing
This Is a Bust
Lament in the Night
Water Chasing Water
They Who Do Not Grieve
Waylaid
East Goes West
Oriental Girls Desire Romance
Rolling The R's
Roughhouse
Where We Once Belonged
Rolling The R's
City Terrace Field Manual
Unbearable Heart - Hb
East Goes West
The Story Of My Typewriter
This Is Not It
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
Dracula
Narcisa
Feathers Like Leather
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
A Voice through a Cloud
Another Ventriloquist
Cockfighter
Oriental Girls Desire Romance
Vanity Fair
The High Life
Autumn in Peking
Evguenie Sokolov
Foam of the Daze
The Dead All Have The Same Skin
To Hell with the Ugly
I Spit On Your Graves
The Hanging on Union Square
The Book of Monelle
Lesabéndio
The Moiré Effect
Red Grass
The Tutu
Georges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys
The Prisoner Of Zenda
Madame Bovary
A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer
The Conductor and Other Tales
American Canyon
Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
Fox Drum Bebop
Aurora and Cardinal Point
The Garden Book
The Creator
Semmelweis
My Own Death
The Trumpets of Jericho
Disagreeable Tales
A Dilemma
Sam Dunn is Dead
And China Has Hands
The Overcoat
The Nose
Life in the Folds
Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
Exemplary Departures
Murder Most Serene
Theory of MultiDreams
City of the Future
District
Hashish
Mademoiselle Bambu
Odd Jobs
Wishes
The Children's Crusade
Imaginary Lives
The Ambivalents
Archive of the Average Swede
Psychology of the Rich Aunt
Treatise on Modern Stimulants
Whiskey Tales
Little Women
Enrique Vila-Matas: Cabinet d'amateur, an oblique novel
Maria Fusco: Nine Qwerty Bells
Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne
The Sundays of Jean Dézert
Samalio Pardulus
Curl
The Black Flame of Paradise (A Novel)
Room 225-6: A Novel
Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sum and the Parts
Mount Analogue
Last of Her Name
David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College
To Those Gods Beyond
A Death
At the Blue Monkey
Braids
Tom McCarthy: Empty House of the Stare
Cruise of Shadows
Moby-Dick
The Mayor of Leipzig
Tuesday or September or The End
Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville
Confidences / Majority
Blue in Green
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
The House of the Seven Gables
The Girl Before Her
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter
Spicilege
Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: wild wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse
El último combate
Noticias sobre Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo y su obra
Empresas y Tribulaciones de Maqroll El Gaviero
Los geniecillos dominicales
La escritura obsesiva
Edición Conmemorativa del centenario de Juan Rulfo
Corrección de pruebas en Alta Provenza
El gallo de oro y otros relatos
Obra
Juan Rulfo en el cine
La mansión de Araucaíma y cuadernos del palacio
Último Round
Pedro Páramo
El llano en llamas
La vuelta al día en 80 mundos
Treasure Island
Karel Jaromír Erben & Jan Jedlicka: We Three Brothers
Groove, Bang and Jive Around
Five Stories for Philip Guston
Fernando Maquieira: A Tiny Story
Trouble in the Swaths
New Inventions and the Latest Innovations
Vulturnus
Angharad Wiliams: Eraser
Confidences / Production
The Historians Book 4: Toys
Mudun
Of Dogs and Daughters
Stapelia Mixta
The Messengers
Vacated Landscape
With Their Hearts in Their Boots
The Tower of Love
The Orchid Stories
Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight
Motor Maids Across America
The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories