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A Vau-l'Eau

Joris-Karl Huysmans

3.9/5 ( ratings)

"Set in late-nineteenth-century Paris, Downstream is the story of civil servant Jean Folantin, a man beset with melancholy induced by middle-aged loneliness, nihilism, and toiling for a wage that scarcely allows him to subsist. His days are composed of office drudgery; in the evenings he searches in vain for a decent meal. His nights are spent alone." Whether Downstream is the political tale of a man's enslavement by poverty or, instead, a psychological tale of his reluctance to genuinely invest hope in anything that actually matters, it is J.K. Huysmans in a foul and visionary mood.

Pages: 63

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Editions Mille et une Nuits

Release: November 22, 2000

ISBN: 2842055063

ISBN 13: 9782842055066

A Vau-l'Eau

Joris-Karl Huysmans

3.9/5 ( ratings)

"Set in late-nineteenth-century Paris, Downstream is the story of civil servant Jean Folantin, a man beset with melancholy induced by middle-aged loneliness, nihilism, and toiling for a wage that scarcely allows him to subsist. His days are composed of office drudgery; in the evenings he searches in vain for a decent meal. His nights are spent alone." Whether Downstream is the political tale of a man's enslavement by poverty or, instead, a psychological tale of his reluctance to genuinely invest hope in anything that actually matters, it is J.K. Huysmans in a foul and visionary mood.

Pages: 63

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Editions Mille et une Nuits

Release: November 22, 2000

ISBN: 2842055063

ISBN 13: 9782842055066

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