With the Flow, foreshadow his later spiritual works such as the study The Crowds of Lourdes (*) and the novel, The Cathedral.  
This author's Becalmed centers on a couple's move from the hustle and bustle of the city to the country, while the struggles of the titular working class girls dominates this author's The Vatard Sisters.  This author described the odors emanating from a woman's under arms in the short story, The Gusset, which was included in his Parisian Sketches.  Some of this author's earlier work, beginning with the story of Jean Folantin's attempts at finding satisfaction, With the Flow, foreshadow his later spiritual works such as the study The Crowds of Lourdes (*) and the novel, The Cathedral.  Up to that point his best selling work had been a novel about a character named Durtal who investigates the evil Canon Docre's satanic ways.  That work, commonly translated as Down There, is less well known than an 1884 work that features rapturous descriptions of Moreau paintings, a tortoise with a golden shell, and sex with an acrobat.  For ten points identify, this creator of the ultimate aesthete, the Duc des Esseintes, in his masterpiece Against Nature.
This author's Becalmed centers on a couple's move from the hustle and bustle of the city to the country, while the struggles of the titular working class girls dominates this author's The Vatard Sisters.  
Joris Karl {Huysmans}