Joris-Karl Huysmans

Mot strömmen är en fransk roman, skriven av Joris Karl Huysmans 1884. Den första svenska översättningen av Ingrid Ekman publicerades 1946 men är ofullständig då delar av kapitel 7, som ansågs religiöst stötande, fattas. En fullständig översättning gjord av Elias Wraak utkom 2004. Romanen handlar om den överkultiverade …

Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original for 'Bluebeard'. Bored and disgusted by the vulgarity of everyday …

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 Là-bas, investigating Satanism. En route and the two subsequent two novels, La …

The Cathedral is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. A revised English edition was published in 2011. It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the character of Durtal in Là-bas and En route, which recounted his …