La-Bas (Down There)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (857 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486228371 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
They take refuge where they can from the forces of modern times — in a bell tower, in abstruse knowledge, and in diabolism.Huysmans' ability to mesmerize his readers with torrents of sound and image is itself suspiciously akin to the magic arts. K. The legendary crimes, trial, and confession of this grotesque fifteenth-century child murderer, sadist, necrophile, and practitioner of all the black arts unfold in episode after horrifying episode. This novel is the classic of Satanism. Surrounding him are others equally cut off, sharing a nostalgic longing for the Middle Ages. The republication of this novel, along with the previous publication of Against the Grain, will make his works accessible to the larger audience that will surely find them both important and fascinating, as have Oscar Wilde, Havelock Ellis, and many other major literary figures.. There is a simply religious bell-ringer, a learned astrologer, a medical doctor versed in homeopath and occult lore, and a fourth person — a sheltered, unsatisfied bourgeois by day and mysterious succubus by night. It caused a sensation when it first appeared in 1891 because o
They could've corrected the 1928 edition's typos Robert Beveridge J. K. Huysmans, La-Bas (Dover, 1891)Ah, Huysmans, the author who pioneered the novel of "two people spending a whole chapter talking about things that have absolutely nothing to do with the plot, theme, or story." La-Bas (translated, "Down There") is billed by the blurb-writer who did the back cover as "the classic of Satanism" thanks to a description (I warn you, it comes very, very late in the book; those seeking a quick fix of prurience should certainly look elsewhere) of a Black Mass. One thinks that perhaps the blurb writer has been living in a cav. "FROM THE BROTHEL TO THE CLOISTER" according to Anita Fix. Amidst the Occult revival & the glory days of Decadence, of all places Paris, 1891, high aloft the bell-tower of Saint-Sulpice, far away from where "progress is but the refinement of the vices", the reader's granted access to the extraordinary conversations of a small group of friends: a famous & capable physician with sincere intellectual occult inclinations; a most reknown ex-court Astrologer; a kindly, aged sage with a rare, profound learning of the lost Art of Bellringing, accompanied by his wife who both occupy the tower making of it intimate & coz. FROM THE BROTHEL TO THE CLOISTER Anita Fix Amidst the Occult revival & the glory days of Decadence, of all places Paris, 1891, high aloft the bell-tower of Saint-Sulpice, far away from where "progress is but the refinement of the vices", the reader's granted access to the extraordinary conversations of a small group of friends: a famous & capable physician with sincere intellectual occult inclinations; a most reknown ex-court Astrologer; a kindly, aged sage with a rare, profound learning of the lost Art of Bellringing, accompanied by his wife who both occupy the tower making of it intimate & coz
Language Notes Text: English, French (translation)