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Title: La-Bas: A Journey into the Self by J. K. Huysmans, Brendan King ISBN: 1-873982-74-7 Publisher: Dedalus Ltd Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than the mis-translations of Keene Wallace
Comment: It's unfortunate that the 1924 Keene Wallace translation is still so popular. Here is an example of why this new translation by Brendan King is better:
Keene Wallis:
"Asphalt from the street, leaves of henbane, datura, dried nightshade, and myrrh. These are perfumes delightful to Satan, our master."
Brendan King:
"Rue, leaves of henbane and thorn-apple, dried nightshade and myrtle, all fragrances pleasing to Satan, our master."
One can only wonder how many generations of unfortunate satanists, not knowing French, suffered serious trauma from inhalation of asphalt from the streets, instead of rue, due to Keene Wallis' erroneous translation...
Rating: 4
Summary: LA - Bas = interesting social phenomenon...
Comment: I found this book more than engrossing, both with the protagonist as well as his research. However, more interesting to me was the general social outlook portrayed in this piece... we see a man discontent with the mass produced and the mediocre, a view on consumerism before it was called that. The book was writen in 1891 during the Industrial Revolution, and even though the factories do not even play a role in this book, you can clearly see their influence.
This book, although somewhat more introspective and more annoyingly sensationalized that is absolutely necessary, makes it abundantly clear how little we have progressed in thought in the last 100 years.
Rating: 5
Summary: A dark and poetic trip into 19th century French Satanism
Comment: I re-read this book once a year and with each passage I find new moments to be enchanted, bewildered and mystified by. This book inspired me so much that I tattooed it's title on my upper right arm when I was 16.
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Title: En Route by Jarl-Karl Huysmans, W. Fleming ISBN: 1873982143 Publisher: Dedalus Ltd Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert Baldick ISBN: 0140440860 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1959 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France by Asti Hustvedt ISBN: 1890951072 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 18 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: Maldoror and the Complete Works by Lautreamont, Alexis Lykiard, Comte De Lautreamont, Lautreamont Chants De Maldoror, Lautreamont Poesies, Conte de Lautreamont, Comte De Lautreamont ISBN: 187897212X Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger ISBN: 0521437733 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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