This is the very best example of what the French naturalists wanted a novel to be. It is also the shortest and most autobiographical of Huysmans' works and therefore serves as a wonderful introduction for the contemporary reader to the pleasures of Huysmans. In this dark and mordantly comic masterpiece of everyday pessimism about a Parisian clerk seeking spiritual contentment, the author evokes all the little miseries of urban life while expressing his utter contempt for life in the country. Huysmans' exquisite style is the most perfect remedy for tedium vitae.
- ISBN10 1885586353
- ISBN13 9781885586353
- Publish Date 21 April 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Turtle Point Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English