Huysmans au coin de ma fenêtre. Proche et Moyen Orient or the wind

or the wind

have been called "treasures" for a very long time

Tu ne respires plus

and later of Prince Cyrus the Younger

and preparatory drawings for paintings

Huysmans au coin de ma fenêtre. Proche et Moyen Orient or the windThis is not an essay on Huysmans, the man and his work, but a testimony of gratitude towards a writing whose spirit, successively embodied in Folantin, Des Esseintes and Durtal, deeply permeated my literary sensibility, my aesthetic feeling and my sense of the spiritual during my formative years. Huysmans is the only author I could claim if I had to answer a question which would bear on the link established, from the beginning and in the long run,