Là-Bas

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Publié par Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, le 06 août 2016

258 pages

Résumé

La-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 A rebours. La-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 cathedrale and L'oblat. La-Bas was first published in serial form by the newspaper L'Echo de Paris, with the first installment appearing on February 15, 1891. It came out in book form in April of the same year; the publisher was Tresse et Stock."