# Là-bas

Author: Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907; Wallis, Keene [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14323

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=L%C3%A0-bas+Huysmans&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

"You believe pretty thoroughly in these things, or you wouldn't abandon the eternal triangle and the other stock subjects of the modern novelists to write the story of Gilles de Rais," and after a silence Des Hermies added, "I do not object to the latrine; hospital; and workshop vocabulary of naturalism. For one thing, the subject matter requires some such diction. Again, Zola, in _L'Assommoir_, has shown that a heavy-handed artist can slap words together hit-or-miss and give an effect of tremendous power. I do not really care how the naturalists maltreat language, but I do strenuously object to the earthiness of their ideas. They have made our literature the incarnation of materialism--a...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/la-bas-14323/chapters/22/index.md)