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Là-bas (novel)
novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans
For other uses, see Là-bas (disambiguation).
Title page of the first edition of Là-bas. | |
| Author | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
|---|---|
| Language | French |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Tresse & Stock |
Publication date | |
| Publication place | France |
| Pages | |
Là-Bas (French pronunciation:[laba]), translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 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,[1] 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.
History and plot
Là-Bas was first published in serial