Downstream

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Original title: À vau l'eau

Translated by Robert Baldick first published 1927 Turtle Point Press, 2005 paperback 69 pages

Fleuron — book 78

"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 b...

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Robert Baldick 1 printing we hold · 2005 · Turtle Point Press

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Vau-L'eau edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781021548955
Vau-L'eau edition · 2019 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9780353749931
Vau-L'eau edition · 2018 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9780274734078
Downstream paperback · 2005 · Turtle Point Press · 69 pages · 9781885586353
A Vau-l'Eau paperback · 2000 · Editions Mille et une Nuits · 9782842055066
A vau-l'eau edition · 1996 · Slatkine · 71 pages

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