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This acclaimed book by jk huysmans is available at in several formats for your ereader. It is the first of huysmans books to feature the character durtal, a. Joriskarl huysmans shocking novel of an innocents descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals, the damned labas caused a scandal when it was first published in nineteenthcentury france. Good press publishes a wide range of titles that enc. It is not difficult to understand why a novel following the spiritual journey of a writer interested in satanism would have been too. It is in this novel that huysmans character, durtal, is introduced for the first time. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. Understandably given its subject matter, labas proved controversial when it was first published, but it is now recognized as a 19 thcentury classic. Dec 10, 2004 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Take on the roles of artists and occultists, saints and sinners, visionaries and mad men. Turning to the study of the middle ages as a form of escapism, he learns of the.
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