Downstream, the shortest and most autobiographical of Huysmans’ novels, is the perfect example of what the French naturalists wanted a novel to be. This dark and mordantly comic masterpiece of everyday pessimism about a Parisian clerk seeking spiritual contentment is the perfect introduction to the pleasures of Joris Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), whose exquisite style is ironically the most perfect remedy for any reader’s taedium vitae.
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Author(s)J.K. Huysmans
PublisherTurtle Point Press
ISBN / ASIN1885586353
ISBN-139781885586353
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,577,321
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸