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

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. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.