Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907)

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1. Joris-Karl Huysmans

   Author of Against the Grain, The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics), Parisian Sketches (Dedalus European Classics)

2. Gustave Flaubert

   Author of Sentimental Education, Three Tales, Bouvard and Pécuchet

3. André Gide

   Author of The Immoralist, Strait is the Gate, The Vatican Cellars

4. Comte de Lautréamont

   Author of Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror, Maldoror and Poems

5. Georges Bataille

   Author of Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon, Trial of Gilles De Rais

6. Louis-Ferdinand Céline

   Author of Journey to the End of the Night, Rigadoon, L'Eglise

7. Italo Svevo

   Author of Confessions of Zeno, Una vita, A Perfect Hoax

8. Jean Genet

   Author of Our Lady of the Flowers, The Thief's Journal

9. Witold Gombrowicz

   Author of Ferdydurke, Cosmos, Possessed, or, The secret of Myslotch

10. Gustav Meyrink

    Author of The Golem, The Angel of the West Window, Walpurgis Night

11. Charles Baudelaire

    Author of The Flowers of Evil, Intimate Journals

12. Robert Musil

    Author of The Confusions of Young Törless

13. Stendhal

    Author of The Charterhouse of Parma, The Life of Henry Brulard

14. Charles Robert Maturin

    Author of Melmoth the Wanderer

15. Frederick Rolfe

    Author of Hadrian the Seventh

16. Elias Canetti

    Author of Auto-da-Fé

17. André Breton

    Author of Nadja

18. François Rabelais

    Author of Gargantua and Pantagruel

19. Ivan Goncharov

    Author of Oblomov

20. Laurence Sterne

    Author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman