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  City of the damned

  This groundbreaking book comes from the author of the infamous Against Nature, the book the helped convict Oscar Wilde, and from the spiritual father of the decadent movement, J.K. Huysmans. It is a story of a shy author called Durtal, who is trying to write the biography of one of France’s most notorious medieval criminal, Gilles De Rais, a satanist and a child killer. As he tries to gather material for his biography, Durtal begins a spiral descent into the dark world of fin de siecele occultism. It is a powerful meditation on faith and the nature of good and evil, while at the same time a fascinating look into the values and fears of the end of a century. Full of atmosphere and many revealing details about the French occult underworld (borrowed by Huysmans through his work in the ministry of defense) it is an unusually stylish study of the human psyche

  Review by Dror Elkvity on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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