Fanaux du vieil espoir: The Aesthetics of Reversion in Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Roman de Durtal [Fanaux du vieil espoir. L’esthétique de réversion du Roman de Durtal de Joris-Karl Huysmans]

Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Catholic tetralogy, composed of the novels Là-bas (1891), En route (1895), La Cathédrale (1898), and L’Oblat (1903), offers the reader a buffet of sensorial delights, an aesthetic methodology that follows the structure of À rebours while circumscribing it within the framewor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan Atticus Doherty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Western Australia 2023-11-01
Series:Essays in French Literature and Culture
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Online Access:https://essaysinfrenchliteratureandculture.wordpress.com/?page_id=1430