La-bas

Description:

Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself, who would go on to be the protagonist of all of Huysmans' subsequent novels: En route, La cathédrale and L'oblat. - wikipedia

subjects: Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Paranormal fiction,  Rais, Gilles de (1404-1440),  Gilles de Rais,  Fiction,  Fiction, general,  Satanism,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, erotica,  Fiction, occult & supernatural,  Classic Literature,  Fiction, erotica, general,  France, fiction,  French language materials,  History

People: Keene Wallis,  Gilles de Rais (1404-1440)

Places: France

Times: 15th century