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Les Soirées de Médan

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In French literature: Naturalism
…joint publication, in 1880, of Les Soirées de Médan, a volume of short stories by Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Henry Céard, Léon Hennique, and Paul Alexis. The Naturalists purported to take a more scientifically analytic approach to the presentation of reality than had
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involvement of Huysmans

In Joris-Karl Huysmans
The latter was published in Les Soirées de Médan (1881), war stories written by members of Émile Zola’s “Médan” group of naturalist writers. Huysmans soon broke with the group, however, publishing a series of novels too decadent in content and violent in style to be considered examples of naturalism.
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