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Parisian Sketches (Dedalus European Classics)
Parisian Sketches - Dedalus European Classics Author:Joris-Karl Huysmans, Brendan King, J.-K Huysmans First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manets solo show of brasserie paintings at La Vie Moderne gallery, these Parisian Sketches share the Impressionist fascination with the contemporary life of Paris, an exuberant Paris in the era of the Op?ra Garnier and the Folies-Bergeres. Like the s... more »triking images of the early Impressionists, whom Huysmans championed when it was unfashionable, Parisian Sketches is an assault on the visual senses. Composed of a series of intense, meticulously observed literary impressions û of caf? concerts and circus performers, of streetwalkers and hot-chestnut sellers, of run-down slums and forgotten quarters in the grimy, shiny City of Light -- Parisian Sketches recreates the Paris with an intimacy and an immediacy that confirms Huysmans as one of the masters of 19th century French prose.« less