| Downstream Contributor(s): Huysmans, Joris-Karl (Author), Baldick, Robert (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1885586353 ISBN-13: 9781885586353 Publisher: Turtle Point Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: "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 (18481907), whose exquisite style is ironically the most perfect remedy for any reader's "taedium vitae," |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004108023 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.7" W x 7.1" (0.20 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |