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Article: The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.-K. Huysmans.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.-K. Huysmans. By Robert Ziegler. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2004. 385 pp. $62.50. ISBN 0-87413-873-6.
Although the image of the mirror, both as a literal and a metaphorical device, recurs Throughout J.-K. Huysmans's work, surprisingly little has been written on the subject to date, apart from a short essay by Jin-Hyun Ryu, 'Le miroir dans les romans de Huysmans', Bulletin de la Societe J.-K. Huysmans, 96 (2003), 73-84. Robert Ziegler's The Mirror of Divinity attempts to give the topic amore thorough critical foundation, not only through its breadth of coverage--the book spans almost the whole of ...