The Damned [Audiobook] download free by Joris Karl Huysmans
- Listen audiobook: The Damned
- Author: Joris Karl Huysmans
- Release date: 2002/2/15
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
- ISBN: 9780140447675
- Rating: 9.44 of 10
- Votes: 106
- Review by: Santiago Redd
- Review rating: 7.15 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/7
- Duration: 3H59M10S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-31
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, WAV, AAC, WavPack, AIFF, MPEG4, MP3 (compression AZW3, XZ, ZIP, DMG, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M21S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals, The Damned (La-Bas) caused a scandal when it was first published in nineteenth-century France. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by Terry Hale.Durtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original for 'Bluebeard'. Bored and disgusted by the vulgarity of everyday life, Durtal seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. But when he starts asking questions about Gilles's involvement in satanic rituals and is introduced to the exquisitely evil madame Chantelouve, he is soon drawn into a twilight world of black magic and erotic devilry in fin-de- siecle Paris. Published in 1891, The Damned cemented Huysmans's reputation as a writer at the forefront of the avant-garde and as one of the most challenging and innovative figures in European literature.In his introduction, Terry Hale discusses autobiographical aspects of this scandalous novel, Huysmans's fascination with occult practices, the real woman who inspired the character of Madame Chantelouve and other literary accounts of Gilles de Rais. This edition also includes further reading, a chronology and notes.Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) is now recognized as one of the most challenging and innovative figures in European literature and an acknowledged principal architect of the fin-de-siecle imagination. He was a career civil servant who wrote ten novels, most notably A Rebours and La-Bas.If you enjoyed The Damned, you might like Huysmans's Against Nature (A Rebours), also available in Penguin Classics.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classic Books & Novels, Horror, Contemporary Fiction
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.08 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x18mm
- Weight: 236g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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