Down There ( La Bas)

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Down There, La Bas byJoris-Karl Huysmans. Translated to English by Keene Wallis. Publisher : Mokelumne Hill Pr; Spi edition (1 Sept. 1996), plastic comb., spiral bound. Reproduction of book published 1924 Softcover condition: Very Good +. Cover protected by palstic cover. On the inside of front cover stamp of previous bookseller, important commentary in pencil about the author and book on the front end paper. Some light foxing of back of the cover. But otherwise clean, nice copy 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's 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's 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's subsequent novels: En route, La cathédrale and L'oblat. Là-Bas was first published in serial form by the newspaper L'Écho 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. Many of L'Écho de Paris' more conservative readers were shocked by the subject matter and urged the editor to halt the serialisation, but he ignored them. Sale of the book was prohibited from French railway stations. The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages. N° de ref. del artículo 000155

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