Downstream

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885586353
• ISBN13: 9781885586353
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.7" x 7.1"