L -Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891.
It is the first of Huysmans\' 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.
L -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 Huysmans\' most famous work after rebours.
L -Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891