Downstream
(2021)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Turtle Point Press, 2021
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781933527734 (electronic bk.) MWT14523423, 1933527730 (electronic bk.) 14523423
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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