In 1891, French popular author JK Huysmans scandalized the public with his novel La-Bas, a sultry and sleazy story surveying sex, shame, and Satanism. What inspired him to delve into such outrageous material -- and why did so many people take him seriously?

 

SHOW LINKS

• Satanists convince Delaware County, Pennsylvania school district to alter dress code
• La-Bas, by Joris K. Huysmans
• JSTOR Daily: Satanism and Magic in the Age of the Moulin Rouge
• The New Yorker: What Houellebecq Learned from Huysmans
• The Paris Review: Divine Ordure
• Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism, by Gareth Medway
• Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism, by Ruben van Luijk
• Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture, by Per Faxneld

 

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