Story of 2 Parisian working-class sisters at the end of the 19thc " A powerful and outstanding work." Gustave Flaubert "The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade…The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts…and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy…a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work…" Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future
Die Meisterwerke der Französischen Literatur: Eine Sammlung Unvergesslicher Klassiker
Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, André Gide, Voltaire, George Sand, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, François Rabelais, Stendhal, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marie-Madeleine La Fayette, Alphonse Daudet, Jules Verne, Antoine-François Prévost, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marquis De Sade, Anatole France, Alfred de Musset, Guy De Maupassant, Jean Giraudoux, François René Chateaubriand, Guillaume de Lorris, Pierre de Beaumarchais, Molière, Jean Baptiste Racine, Edmond Rostand, Pierre Corneille, Charles Perrault
