Downstream - by Joris Karl Huysmans (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A Parisian clerk seeks spiritual contentment in this small, dark, mordantly comic masterpiece of everyday pessimism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Downstream</em> is the perfect example of what the French naturalists wanted a novel to be. It is also the shortest and most autobiographical of Huysmans's works. This dark and mordantly comic masterpiece of everyday pessimism about a Parisian clerk seeking spiritual contentment serves as a wonderful introduction for the contemporary reader to the pleasures of Joris Karl Huysmans. </p><p><br></p><p>J. K. Huysmans (1848-1907) was the preeminent Parisian writer of his day.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Joris Karl Huysmans was born in Paris in 1848 of Dutch parents. He died on May 13, 1907, the last of the little band of Naturalists which included Zola, Daudet, and the Goncourts. Huysmans was the preeminent Parisian writer. Huysmans worked, like the hero of Downstream, as a low-level clerk in the Ministry of the Interior.
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