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>>15941622
They're very different books, the common strain being Huysmans descriptiveness. Against Nature is a great anti-naturalist assault. It can read like a catalogue and very little happens, making it a bit slow.

La Bas has a driving plot, eroticism, death and murder. If you were put off Huysmans by a bad translation I would read La Bas first to draw you back in, then use the energy to re-read the Brendan King translation of Against Nature afterwards.

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>>13753984
The antagonists in La Bas.

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I can highly recommend the Dedalus translation, the translator is a Huysmans specialist and fanboy who runs
http://www.huysmans.org/en/me.htm

Good print, binding, and bright bleached paper too, much better than Penguins.

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La Bas by Huysmans

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