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La-Bas: Down There (Paperback)

by J K Huysmans (Author), K. Wallace (Author)
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  • Paperback: 287 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New edition edition (22 Jan 1973)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0486228371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486228372
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 587,211 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A novel of satanism that explores the occult community found in Paris during the nineteenth century.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Once-notorious true story of Occultist literature, 22 Aug 1997
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La Bas was read a century ago for its scandalous first-person accounts of Satanic rites (including those indulged in by the notorious Abbe Boulan, here fictionalized as Canon Docre), but there's little in this once-notorious and widely-banned book that would titillate today.

Instead, what's memorable about La Bas is its view of Satanism as one logical repsonse to modernism-- Huysmans affected to hate his then-modern world, of Edison lightbulbs and the execrable Eiffel Tower, and sought a refuge from it in an affected medievalism. Yet he couldn't be comfortable in the Church, at least not right away (eventually he did become a Catholic oblate, a kind of lay monk), and so the type of Satanism practiced by the notorious medieval sadist Gilles de Rais became one refuge... or at least a reverse-chic fashion to affect for one season and shock the old folks. (Huysmans would have hated California in the late 60's, but it dug him-- and it's a wonder the Gothic movement hasn't picked up on this book.) It's the philosophical discussion of this surprisingly contemporary position that provides the real interest of the book today.

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