Before his conversion, Huysmans was part of which literary movement?
Symbolism
Decadent Movement
Dadaism
Surrealism
Answer
The Decadent Movement, which Huysmans was a part of before his conversion, was a late 19th-century artistic and literary movement characterized by the pursuit of aestheticism, the exploration of taboo subjects, and a rejection of traditional moral and social norms.
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