This is a new translation after half a century of Huysmans' earliest masterpiece. It includes the short story, 'The Retreat of Monsieur Bougran', translated for the first time into English. 'With the Flow' describes the minutiae of misery and boredom in the day in the life of a man who - for a moment - refuses to go with the flow.
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'the two stories... show a writer in the act of transition, looking for an escape route from the dead end of bourgeois materialism...' --Times Literary Supplement
M. Folantin is a government employee who is overwhelmed by the quotidian misery of life. The story follows his Quixotic quest for enjoyment - as he goes to a restaurant, to the cinema, and to a prostitute - but ultimately finds that nothing can shake from him his disgust and boredom with the business of living.
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