La Bas (Down There) by Joris-Karl Huysmans

La Bas (Down There)

Durtal #1

Joris-Karl Huysmans

288 pages first pub 1891 (view editions)

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The plot 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 and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century child-murderer Gil...

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