J. K. Huysmans — En Rade
Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1887, 1e druk, Leder band, 319, En rade (1887) is a French novel combining naturalist detail with elements of fantasy. It follows a Parisian couple who retreat to the countryside to escape financial difficulties, only to find the rural environment bleak, decaying, and oppressive rather than restorative. The narrative juxtaposes mundane frustrations and disillusionment with dream sequences of a more imaginative and symbolic nature, marking a transition in Huysmans’s work from realism toward the decadent and the supernatural., Goed