The Decomposed Paris of Huysmans

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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2022.38873

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Joris-Karl Huysmans, Paris, myth, urban landscape, parisian type, flâneur

Abstract

Huysmans participated in his own way in the literary discourse that made Paris the poetic place par excellence and gave it a mythical character. Parisian by birth, he chose the capital as the setting for most of his novels and made his hometown the subject of many descriptive texts, where he appears as a Baudelairean flâneur. Fascinated by the old Paris, he preferred quiet and melancholic corners, popular neighborhoods, even suburbs and denounced the transformations of the Second Empire. Naturalist observer of the big town, he devoted himself, especially in his first works, to painting the urban life in its deep reality, even in its most sordid and trivial aspects. Its pages, those that celebrate certain urban landscapes like those who describe Parisian types, offer a very personal vision of Paris at the time, which is influenced by the pessimism of the author.

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Capa do volume 32, número 2, ano 2002 da Aletria: revista de estudos de literatura. Na capa encontra-se uma imagem de um canal fluvial de Paris, França. Na parte inferior esquerda encontra-se uma mulher caminhando sozinha.

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2022-09-13

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Guglielmi, F. (2022). The Decomposed Paris of Huysmans. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 32(2), 15–28. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2022.38873

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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2022): O Mito Literário de Paris

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Dossier: The Literary Myth of Paris

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