Downstream e-bog
72,87 DKK
(inkl. moms 91,09 DKK)
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...
E-bog
72,87 DKK
Forlag
Turtle Point Press
Udgivet
15 september 2021
Længde
80 sider
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781933527734
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.