A rebours (1884)

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Reviews


blue  Gil Blas. 10 June 1884. A review by Guy de Maupassant.

blue  Le Chat Noir. 14 June 1884. Léon Bloy's review of A Rebours which was later reprinted with a few of Bloy's acerbic comments in Sur la tombe de Huysmans.

blue  Revue Catholique. 15 July 1884.

blue  Le Constitutionnel. 28 July 1884. Also published in Le Pays, 29 July 1884. This is the famous review by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, in which he offered the author of A Rebours the same choice he offered Baudelaire - "la bouche d'un pisolet ou les pieds de la croix".

blue  Polybiblion Revue Bibliographique Universelle. July 1884.

blue  Revue Biblio Iconographique. Troisième série, 1904.

blue  The Nation. A joint review of the first English translation of A Rebours, John Howard's Against the Grain of 1923, and a reissue of The Cathedral.

blue  The Freeman. A review of the first English translation of A Rebours, John Howard's Against the Grain of 1923.

blue  The Dial. A review of Against the Grain which appeared in March 1923.

blue  Times Literary Supplement. A review by Brendan King of Margaret Mauldon's award-winning translation.