Huysmans

"Try a little J-K Huysmans, fer Christ sake," Barney says.

Me & Barney the Purple Dinosaur Con Chapman 2011

She does confess to like Sade, Gautier, Balzac, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Sartre whom I find difficult to stomach, de Beauvoir, Genet and Bachelard.

American academics down on their knees kissing French bums « Jahsonic 2008

For Huysmans, kirsch is the "wild blowing of a trumpet blast."

Do They Taste of Trumpets? 2008

Through practice and "a series of erudite experiments," Huysmans writes, "Des Esseintes would drink a drop here, another there, playing internal symphonies to himself, and providing his palate with sensations analogous to those which music dispenses to the ear."

Do They Taste of Trumpets? 2008

For Huysmans, kirsch is the "wild blowing of a trumpet blast."

Tasting the trumpets 2008

Then Huysmans really hits his stride, likening whisky to trombones, "raising the roof of the mouth" with their blare.

Do They Taste of Trumpets? 2008

She does confess to like Sade, Gautier, Balzac, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Sartre whom I find difficult to stomach, de Beauvoir, Genet and Bachelard.

06 « April « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

Through practice and "a series of erudite experiments," Huysmans writes, "Des Esseintes would drink a drop here, another there, playing internal symphonies to himself, and providing his palate with sensations analogous to those which music dispenses to the ear."

Tasting the trumpets 2008

So we have an essay such as “On Anticipation” where the places are Hammersmith, London and Barbados and the guide is J.K. Huysmans.

Put on Your Traveling Shoes « So Many Books 2005

Hilaire Belloc, J.K. Huysmans, G.K. Chesterton, and Evelyn Waugh (who quoted The Waste Land frequently) all made an initial reputation for nightmarish satire before retreating into a not always convincing nook of Catholicism.

Letters to the Editor 2005