Vatard Sisters

Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a "e;lewd but exact"e; slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. Huysmans abandoned poetry and turned to the novel at a time when the works of Emile Zola were intensely controversial; Les Soeurs Vatard is dedicated to Zola by "e;his fervent admirer and devoted friend."e;In it, Huysmans vividly depicts the scene that for his generation of French ...