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02798aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 559EC4443A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150804010056 008 141220s2015 mauc 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1939663113 020 $a 9781939663115 035 $a (OCoLC)898530590 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d CDX $d HLS $d FXG $d STF $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 050 4 $a PQ2309.H4 $b D5513 2015 082 04 $a 843.8 $2 23 100 1 $a Huysmans, J.-K. $q (Joris-Karl), $d 1848-1907, $e author. 240 10 $a Dilemme. $l English 245 12 $a A Dilemma / $c Joris-Karl Huysmans ; translated by Justin Vicari. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Wakefield Press, $c 2015. 300 $a vii, 81 pages : $b portrait ; $c 18 cm 500 $a "Originally published as Un dilemme, 1888". 500 $a "Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans's 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-sieÌcle. Written 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 the author's 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's indictment of the underlying crime of the novel itself: a language apparatus employed to maintain the appetites of the ruling class."--Page 4 of cover. 650 0 $a Social classes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Avarice $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Manipulative behavior $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rich people $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Paris (France) $x Social life and customs $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Avarice. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00824296 650 7 $a Manipulative behavior. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007738 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Rich people. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01097537 650 7 $a Social classes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122346 651 7 $a France $z Paris. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205283 648 7 $a 1800 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 700 1 $a Vicari, Justin, $d 1968- $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180103035337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=559EC4443A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search