ABSTRACT
In the absence of any works of real literary merit, spectacle and display thus kept enthusiastic crowds in suspense and gave the myth of Satan every appearance of reality. In attempting to stick as closely as possible to the development of a literary myth and adopting a resolutely rationalist stance. And finally Baudelaire commented in his Journaux intimes that the most perfect example of manly beauty is Satan as described by Milton. As a brilliant inventor of myths Victor Hugo was to amplify this theme of salvation in his famous work, La Fin de Satan. In this purely Catholic perspective, Joris-Karl Huysmans notes that the power of sadism, the attraction it offers, lies entirely in the forbidden enjoyment of transferring to Satan the homage and prayers due to God. Satan seen as an archetype engendered by people's ancestral fear of outer darkness, in which, according to Dante, all hope abandons them, has become a kind of catalyst of phantasms.
