Becalmed
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
On This Page
Description
Grasping peasants and a crumbling chateau make life hell in the countryside. J.-K. Huysmans' Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against Nature, sees him again breaking new ground and pushing back the boundaries of the novel form. Stamped throughout with his characteristic black humour, Stranded is one of Huysmans' most innovative, most imaginative works. Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that show more explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of ima. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
The visceral horrors of country living.
A very interesting novel indeed. It contains many different facets, with every chapter bringing a different atmosphere: ultra-realism, (sometimes black) humour, dreams, decadence, etc. It was considered by Zola as the top of Huysmans's literature, and I cannot do but fully agree with him.
My favorite of the Huysmans!
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
118+ Works 7,457 Members
Some Editions
Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Livro B (48)
Work Relationships
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Becalmed
- Original title
- En rade
- Alternate titles
- Stranded; O castelo do homem ancorado
- Original publication date
- 1887
- Original language*
- Französisch
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 163
- Popularity
- 199,988
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- 6 — Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
- 6
