The Damned (La-bas) by Joris-Karl Huysmans

The Damned (La-bas)

Durtal #1

Joris-Karl Huysmans with Keen Wallace (Translator)

254 pages first pub 1891 (editions)

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At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in history, Gilles de Rais -- child murderer, sadist, necrophile, and practitioner of all the black arts. The book's authentic, extraordinarily detaile...

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