Downstream — Joris-Karl Huysmans / J.K. Huysmans

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  • Trade Paperback
  • Apr-2005
  • Turtle Point Press
  • ISBN: 1885586353
  • ISBN13: 9781885586353

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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 (1848â€"1907), whose exquisite style is ironically the most perfect remedy for any reader's taedium vitae.

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