The Road from Decadence

The Road from Decadence From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans

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Publisher's Synopsis

Personal correspondence of the French novelist from 1876 to 1907, commenting on literature, art, the press, the church, the Dreyfus affair, America, and modernism. Many of the 200 letters are translated and published here for the first time. Drawn from the Pierre Lambert collection and the archives of the abbey where Huysmans settled late in life.

Book information

ISBN: 9780814204924
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Imprint: Ohio State University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 843.8
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 273
Weight: -1g
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 190mm