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This is the first new translation of En Route since C. Kegan Paul's expurgated original of 1895, which censored or completely cut sections dealing with Durtal's sexual obsessions. Restoring these cuts serves to heighten the drama surrounding Durtal's existential crisis,... Read Full Overview

Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was Against Nature.

Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary, and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was Against Nature.

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... Read Full Overview

En route is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1895. It is the second of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself. Durtal had already appeared in L?-bas, investigating Satanism. En route... Read Full Overview

En Route is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans and was first published in 1895. It is the second of Huysmans's books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself. Durtal had already appeared in L?-bas, investigating Satanism... Read Full Overview

A journey into the shadowed streets of Paris, where beauty and danger walk hand in hand. En Route beckons the curious with a lucid, undaunted voice that makes a late nineteenth-century world feel startlingly close. This francophone novel, a landmark of decadence and moral satire,... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

On y suit les aventures int rieures de Durtal, personnage d j pr sent dans son roman pr c dent L -bas (1891), et qui est un double litt raire de Huysmans. Hant par ses d bauches pass es, Durtal cherche se soulager en courant les glises de Paris, en qu te de plain-chant et... Read Full Overview

On y suit les aventures int rieures de Durtal, personnage d j pr sent dans son roman pr c dent L -bas (1891), et qui est un double litt raire de Huysmans. Hant par ses d bauches pass es, Durtal cherche se soulager en courant les glises de Paris, en qu te de plain-chant et... Read Full Overview

En route est un roman de Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), publi en 1895. On y suit les aventures int rieures de Durtal, personnage d j pr sent dans son roman pr c dent L -bas (1891), et qui est un double litt raire de Huysmans. Hant par ses d bauches pass es, Durtal cherche... Read Full Overview

En route (1920). This book, "En route", by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles Kegan Paul, is a replication of a book originally published before 1920. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

On y suit les aventures int rieures de Durtal, personnage d j pr sent dans son roman pr c dent L -bas (1891), et qui est un double litt raire de Huysmans. Hant par ses d bauches pass es, Durtal cherche se soulager en courant les glises de Paris, en qu te de plain-chant et... Read Full Overview