The Damned (Là-bas) (Authored by Joris-Karl Huysmans)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/481000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Damned (Là-bas) Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Narrator: Owen Joyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 25, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century child-murderer Gilles de Rais. Through his contacts in Paris (notably Dr. Johannes, modeled after Joseph-Antoine Boullan), Durtal finds out that Satanism is not simply a thing of the past but alive in turn of the century France. He embarks on an investigation of the occult underworld with the help of his lover Madame Chantelouve. The novel culminates with a description of a black mass