Two Satanic Essays: Gilles de Rais and Felicen Rops
by
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The first notable literary advocate of the Satanist, alchemist and child-killer Gilles de Rais remains J-K Huysmans, famous for his novel A Rebours and its quintessential decadent, Des Esseintes. Huysmans' later novel La-Bas (1891), a virtual apology for Satanism, is threaded by a version of the de Rais...