LÃ -bas (novel)
Deep down ( Original title: Là -bas ) is the most famous work by the French writer Joris -Karl Huysmans. In the 1891 novel, the history of Satanism and modern Satanism is treated. A Black Mass is represented in it for the first time publicly.
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A suicidal writer has an affair with a world-weary admirer of his books, which proved to be a participant in Black fairs. After the writer has accompanied her to such a life and is horrified, he breaks off the relationship. He had ultimately only be opened because he himself wrote just on a novel about the medieval Satanists Count Gilles de Rais ( 1404-1440 ). To this end, he meets up with other friends who have good knowledge about the history of occultism and Satanism.
. The novel first appeared as a serial novel in the Catholic newspaper L' Echo de Paris, beginning with the issue of 15 February 1891 editorial note, which was placed at the beginning of the impression was:
As an informant for this novel is particularly true of the Catholic priests accused of Satanism Joseph -Antoine Boullan (1824-1893), was to Huysmans in a close relationship.