In a novel by this author, the protagonist dedicates a meal of dark bread and meat with licorice sauce served on dark plates by nude black mistresses, in honor of his lost virility.
In a novel by this author, the protagonist dedicates a meal of dark bread and meat with licorice sauce served on dark plates by nude black mistresses, in honor of his lost virility. One of this author's protagonists parts with his mistress Madame Chantelouve after she is overcome by the odor emanating from incense burners at a black mass. This first president of the Goncourt Academy countered the evil subject matter of his novel about Durtal's attempts to write a biography of the child murderer (*) Gilles de Rais, by publishing the antidotal "white book" En route. After ending his affair with the American acrobat Miss Urania, the protagonist of this author's best-known novel moves into a house with aquariums behind every window, decorated with a tortoise bearing a jewel-encrusted shell. For 10 points, name this author of Là bas, who chronicled the depravity of the aristocrat Jean Des Esseintes in his novel À rebours.
In a novel by this author, the protagonist dedicates a meal of dark bread and meat with licorice sauce served on dark plates by nude black mistresses, in honor of his lost virility.
J. K. Huysmans [or Joris-Karl Huysmans; or Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans]