En Route

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Typ okładki:miękka okładka

EAN: 9781915568571

Opis

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, and gives the novel a perspective that has hitherto been lacking for English-speaking readers. En Route was J.-K. Huysmans' first novel after his conversion to Catholicism and effectively opens a trilogy of novels detailing the spiritual journey of his alter-ego protagonist, Durtal.

The novel caused a sensation on its first publication, not just because of the surprisingly frank descriptions of Durtal's obsessive sexual thoughts, but also because Huysmans' was still best known as a disciple of Zola's Naturalist school and few expected this frank and detailed account of a conversion from a writer who only a few years previously had scandalised the Parisian literary world with his Satanic novel of 1891, La-bas.

Szczegóły

Liczba stron: 379

Wymiary: 12.6x19.8

Typ okładki:miękka okładka

Wydawca: DEDALUS LTD

Autor:

J.K. Huysmans

Seria: Dedalus European Classics

Tytuł:En Route

Kategorie:

Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Fiction

EAN: 9781915568571