On the Way.

J.-K. Huysmans published the novel "On the Way" ("In the Way") in 1895, already being a world-famous writer and art critic. This is a continuation, the second part of the "Catholic Trilogy" about the writer and journalist Durtal, whose prototype... was Huysmans himself. "On the Way" begins with the words of Saint Bonaventure. The epigraph suggests that Durtal will seek the truth not among Satanists (as in the first part - "There, Below, or The Abyss"), but in a monastery: "Flee to the cities of refuge, where you can repent of the sins of the past, live in grace in the present, and with faith look to the future." But despite the description of the protagonist's attempts at a righteous life, the novel aroused animosity from the Catholic Church and was condemned for immorality.