En Route

by J K Huysmans

Published 9 November 1989
A novel, translated by W. Fleming, and introduced by David Blow. The second in Huysmans' series of four autobiographical novels (the others being La-Bas, La Cathedrale, and The Oblate of St. Benedict), En Route tells of the religious dissolution and spiritual reedification of Durtal, the decadent anti-hero par excellence. Huysmans' decadence, Blow writes in his introduction, was a moral predicament, an artistic posture, and the natural outcome of his loss of religious faith. The novel narrates Durtal's progression from a crisis of faith, through Trappism, to a new inspiration in the art, architecture, and music of Rome.

The Cathedral

by J K Huysmans

Published May 1989

Drifting

by J K Huysmans

Published 25 October 2024

Stranded (En Rade)

by J K Huysmans

Published 1 July 2010
A novel.

Marthe

by J K Huysmans

Published December 1992

Vatard Sisters

by J K Huysmans

Published 1 January 1983

Parisian Sketches

by J K Huysmans

Published 18 December 2007