Downstream
Book Details
Author(s)
J.K. Huysmans
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
ISBN / ASIN
1885586353
ISBN-13
9781885586353
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Sales Rank
#1,577,321
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
