TY - JOUR
TI - Living and writing in anomaly: Joris-Karl Huysmans
AU - Sadkowska-Fidala, Agata
TI - Living and writing in anomaly: Joris-Karl Huysmans
AB - From the publication of À Rebours, Huysmans’ books feature a solitary protagonist, dreaming of a situation outside society, time and space, and even the body and sex. To this desire corresponds the increasing modification of the novel formula: a reflection of life in anomaly, the novel is transformed, to become a reverse novel, sick, deformed, bizarre. The refusal of regularity hides another refusal, that of conforming to a reality that does not correspond to the depth of personal experience. The work of Huysmans, especially in its postnaturalist part, brings a constant questioning of the norm under its various aspects, and constitutes an attempt to create a universe made to measure, necessarily a universe in anomaly. The journey that leads, in the field of novel, from À Rebours to L’Oblat, allows us to trace the stages of this evolution.
VL - 2023
IS - Numéro 36
PY - 2023
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 9
EP - 25
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.23.028.18968
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/vivre-et-ecrire-dans-lanomalie-joris-karl-huysmans
KW - anomaly
KW - research
KW - novel
KW - disappointment