Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
80
Language
English
Published
Apr 1, 2005
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
ISBN-10
1885586353
ISBN-13
9781885586353
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.
Genres
Manga
Graphic Novels