Published in 1891, LA-BAS is Huysmans' best-selling novel; its
success was due, in part, to its sensational contents (descriptions
of Satanism in late 1880 France.) It is in this novel that
Huysmans' character, Durtal, is introduced for the first time. This
character is thought to be a semi-autobiographical depiction of the
author and is used in his next three books which chart Durtal's
(and Huysmans') search for religious truths and his ultimate
conversion to Roman Catholicism. The journey begins with the
viewing of an extremely realistic painting: "In Germany, before a
Crucifixion by Matthaeus Grunewald, he had found what he was
seeking."
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