Joris-Karl Huysmans

Against The Grain, or Against Nature

Read by Martin Geeson

“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult no…

Là-bas

Read by Peter Tucker

The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…

En Route

Read by Peter Tucker

The second book by Huysmans concerning the religious development of the novelist Durtal, who in the first book ("La-bas") experien…

The Cathedral

Read by Peter Tucker

It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the c…