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	==English translations==		==English translations==
	''L'Enfer'' has been translated into English several times, first as ''The Inferno'' by [[Edward J. O'Brien]] for [[Boni and Liveright]] in 1918 in a heavily [[expurgation\|abridged]] form, then again as ''The Inferno'' by [[John Rodker]] for [[Joiner & Steele]] in 1932, and then in full as ''Hell'' by [[Robert Baldick]] for [[Chapman and Hall]] in ~~1966 – later~~ reissued by [[Turtle Point Press]] in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.turtlepointpress.com/books/hell/\|title = Hell – Turtle Point Press}}</ref>		''L'Enfer'' has been translated into English several times, first as ''The Inferno'' by [[Edward J. O'Brien]] for [[Boni and Liveright]] in 1918 in a heavily [[expurgation\|abridged]] form, then again as ''The Inferno'' by [[John Rodker]] for [[Joiner & Steele]] in 1932, and then in full as ''Hell'' by [[Robert Baldick]] for [[Chapman and Hall]] in 1966—later reissued by [[Turtle Point Press]] in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.turtlepointpress.com/books/hell/\|title = Hell – Turtle Point Press}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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{{Infobox book
| name = Hell
| title_orig = L'Enfer
| image = File:HellBarbusse.jpg
| language = French
| caption = 1956 Chapman & Hall Reissue
| author = [[Henri Barbusse]]
| publisher =
| published = 1908
| english_pub_date = 1918
}}
'''''Hell''''' ({{langx|fr|L'Enfer}}) is [[Henri Barbusse]]'s second novel, written in 1908, in which the unnamed narrator spies on his fellow house guests through a peephole in his wall.

==Plot summary==
The narrator, unmarried and friendless, books a room in a Paris boarding house. By chance he finds a hole in his wall, through which he can see the adjoining room and its inhabitants. From the other side, he witnesses lesbianism, [[adultery]], [[incest]], thievery, vicious proselytizing and death, musing to the reader on the philosophical implications of the events he witnesses. His voyeurism eventually convinces him to quit his room and find a fulfilling life of his own, but as he attempts to leave he is crippled with backache and blindness.

==Literary criticism==
''Hell'' was notably popular and widely discussed in France, selling more than a hundred thousand copies in 1917 alone.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cather.unl.edu/cs007_harris.html|title=Cather Studies Volume 7 | Willa Cather Archive}}</ref>
[[Colin Wilson]] gave considerable attention to Barbusse's novel in his influential work [[The Outsider (Colin Wilson)|''The Outsider'']].<ref>Wilson, Collin, ''The Outsider: An Enquiry Into the Nature of the Sickness of Mankind in the Mid-Twentieth Century'', London: Gollancz, 1956</ref>

==English translations==
''L'Enfer'' has been translated into English several times, first as ''The Inferno'' by [[Edward J. O'Brien]] for [[Boni and Liveright]] in 1918 in a heavily [[expurgation|abridged]] form, then again as ''The Inferno'' by [[John Rodker]] for [[Joiner & Steele]] in 1932, and then in full as ''Hell'' by [[Robert Baldick]] for [[Chapman and Hall]] in 1966 – later reissued by [[Turtle Point Press]] in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.turtlepointpress.com/books/hell/|title = Hell – Turtle Point Press}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Voyeurism]]
*[[Octave Mirbeau]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:1908 French novels]]
[[Category:1900s LGBTQ novels]]
[[Category:French lesbian-related novels]]
[[Category:French erotic novels]]
[[Category:Novels about infidelity]]
[[Category:Chapman & Hall books]]
[[Category:Decadent literature]]
[[Category:Novels set in Paris]]
[[Category:1900s French-language novels]]
[[Category:Lesbian-related erotic novels]]

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