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In his short novel published before À Rebours, entitled À vau-l’eau, Huysmans tells a story of a protagonist unable to find good food. His quest for a passable restaurant remains unfulfilled, and joins other unfulfilled needs linked to his social life. It becomes clear that behind this quest, told with numerous details and a significant emphasis, there are other, more profound needs that Huysmans...
Barbey d’Aurevilly didn’t like his century, judging it as a distress time. This period personifies for him all possible vices, opposed to the happy time before the Revolution and the XVIIIth century. His novels express his enormous nostalgia for the past. This nostalgia is visible on all the levels of his literary technique, as character construction, configurations of time and space, the plot. All...
Barbey d’Aurevilly didn’t like his century, judging it as a distress ti me. This period personifi es for him all possible vices, opposed to the happy ti me before the Revoluti on and the XVIIIth century. His novels express his enormous nostalgia for the past. This nostalgia is visible on all the levels of his literary technique, as character constructi on, confi gurati ons of ti me and space, the...
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