With the flow

R$ 55,90

Sinopse

The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the occasional embraces of a prostitute. But whatever he does, wherever he turns to in his quest for some pleasure, his dissatisfaction only increases, until he is forced to realize that he has to abandon all hope and just “go with the flow”.This 1882 novella, a key work in Huysmans’ literary development – prefiguring in its protagonist the figure of Jean des Esseintes, the hero of À rebours, written two years later – is accompanied here by another masterly study of human despair, ‘M. Bougran’s Retirement’.

Participantes

Autor: Joris-Karl Huysmans

Tradutor: Andrew Brown

Autor

JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Joris-Karl Huysmans, ou J.-K. Huysmans, nasceu em Paris em 1848, filho único de pai holandês e mãe francesa. Depois de uma infância marcada pela morte do pai e pelo segundo casamento da mãe, tornou-se funcionário administrativo do Ministério do Interior, onde trabalharia durante 32 anos. Além de Às avessas, publicou os romances Marthe (1876), Les sœurs vatard (1879), En ménage (1881) e A vau-l’eau (1882). Faleceu em 1907.