A Dilemma

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Book Overview

A mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed

Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear a mirror to today's neoliberalist times as it did to the French fin-de-si?cle. Written smack in-between Huysmans' most famous works--his 1881...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939663113
• ISBN13: 9781939663115
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 6.9"