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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.
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- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- BiblioBazaar, Creative Media Partners, LLC, Dedalus/Hippocrene
- Editions
- 149
- Language
- French, English, German
- ISBN
- 9781514758885
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“The revelation of this form of Naturalism had come to Durtal the year before, when he was less worn out than he was now by the ignominious spectacle of the coming fin de siècle.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans is the pen name of 19th century French novelist and art critic Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans. His early works were in the Naturalist school, and he later wrote Symbolist and Catholic literature, paralleling his own conversion to Roman Catholicism. Huysmans is best remembered for his 1884 Décadent novel À rebours. Joris-Karl Huysmans was born on 5 February 1848 in Paris, the son of a Dutch lithographer and a former school teacher. When Joris-Karl was eight, his father died, and his mother soon after remarried. After earning the baccalauréat, Huysmans held a clerical position in the French Ministry of the Interior for 32 years. He was drafted for the Franco-Prussian War of
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