Abstract

LINARES SANCHEZ, Luis Adrián. Satanic Decadence´s Tensions, Displacements, and Intersections: Là-bas (1891) Between Religious Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy. REHMLAC [online]. 2024, vol.16, n.1, pp.26-42. ISSN 1659-4223.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v16i1.57547.

Based on the novel Là-bas (1891) written by French author Joris Karl Huysmans and translated into Spanish as Down there, this article rests on a specific example of the satanic according to the parameters of the decadence movement. The analysis of this work aims to see the conflict areas, displacements, and intersections of satanism with other fields, whether with the orthodoxy of Christianity and science, or with the heterodoxy, through magic and occultism. In this way, it will be possible to identify not only some of its argumentative mechanisms, but also constitutive elements that place it in a “gray area”, that is, an adjacent, crossed and even diffuse space.

Keywords : Huysmans; Là-bas; satanism; decadence movement; black mass.

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