"With the Flow" by Joris-Karl Huysmans
"A Vau-l'eau" - Published in 1882.
An account of the experience of the vast majority of humankind. A precise account of the life of quiet desperation. "You have to let yourself go with the flow; Schopenhauer is right," he told himself.
Finally he resigns himself to being unable to affect his own life in any way: 'as he made his way back to his lodgings, he took in at a glance the desolate horizon of his life; he realised the futility of changing direction, the sterility of all enthusiasm and all effort. All efforts are inevitably doomed to failure. Boredom conquers all.
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