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Satisfaire sa faim : destin, dessein et vocation dans À vau l’eau de Joris-Karl Huysmans

Publication date: 30.06.2023

Cahiers ERTA, 2023, Numéro 34, pp. 171 - 187

https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.23.017.17934

Authors

Agata Sadkowska-Fidala
University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2861-8131 Orcid
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Satisfaire sa faim : destin, dessein et vocation dans À vau l’eau de Joris-Karl Huysmans

Abstract

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 will name, more and more directly, in his post-naturalist novels. At the deepest level, the quest comes down to the impossibility to accept life’s difficulties, its duality, and to the wound of an unhappy childhood and a lost mother, so little named and therefore so present in Huysmans’ works.

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Information

Information: Cahiers ERTA, 2023, Numéro 34, pp. 171 - 187

Article type: Original article

Titles:

French:

Satisfaire sa faim : destin, dessein et vocation dans À vau l’eau de Joris-Karl Huysmans

English:

Satisfying one's hunger: destiny, purpose and vocation in À vau l'eau by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2861-8131

Agata Sadkowska-Fidala
University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2861-8131 Orcid
All publications →

University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland

Published at: 30.06.2023

Received at: 26.01.2023

Accepted at: 22.03.2023

Article status: Open

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Percentage share of authors:

Agata Sadkowska-Fidala (Author) - 100%

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Publication languages:

French