En Rade

Pages: 256
Published: 1925
Language: English

A penniless former dandy and his disillusioned wife flee their creditors to find refuge in a decaying country house. What begins as an escape into pastoral romance curdles into a grim, satirical portrait of provincial hypocrisy, greed, and the grotesque — punctuated by three feverish dream sequences that expose Jacques' buried erotic fantasies.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Melancholic Dark

Classics Literary Fiction Psychology Satire

Authors

Brendan King

Brendan King is an author recognized for his fiction, including the works "En rade" and "Certains." His writing explores various aspects of human experience through a direct narrative style.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans is the pen name of 19th century French novelist and art critic Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans. His early works were in the Naturalist school, and he later wrote Symbolist and Catholic literature, paralleling his own conversion to Roman Catholicism. Huysmans is best remembered for his 1884 Décadent novel À rebours. Joris-Karl Huysmans was born on 5 February 1848 in Paris, the son of a Dutch lithographer and a former school teacher. When Joris-Karl was eight, his father die...