Downstream
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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