Tags: Novel.
En ménage (English: Married Life ) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans first published in February 1881 by Charpentier. It tells the story of André Jayant a novelist who marries a petty-minded woman called Berthe. When he finds out Berthe has been unfaithful he leaves her to live first with a high-class prostitute called Blanche then with a working-class woman Jeanne with whom he had had a love affair five years before.