Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno. v1, 2 Mar 2008
 

Henri Barbusse (May 17, 1873, Asnières-sur-Seine—August 30, 1935, Moscow) was a French novelist, journalist and communist.

His novel L'enfer (1908, translated as Inferno or Hell) sparked a scandal as an account of voyeurism when it was released in English. In the intensely realistic story, a young man in a Paris boardinghouse spies on his neighbours through a hole in his bedroom wall, witnessing marriage, adultery, birth, death, lesbianism and other all human beh