Author: Jules Barbey d'AurevillyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Weird Women
Author: Jules Barbey d'AurevillyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Of Dandyism and of George Brummell
Author: Jules Barbey d'AurevillyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dandies
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
What Never Dies
Author: Jules Amedee Barbey D'AurevillyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781933527185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A love affair between a young man and an older noblewoman, tranlsated by Oscar Wilde while he was in exile in France.
Dandyism
Author: Jules Barbey d'AurevillyPublisher: AJ Publishing Company
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
What is a dandy? Carlyle said he was a man whose "existence consists in the wearing of clothes." Isak Dinesen worshipped the freedom of the aesthete as a special Satan. But even these definitions are not enough to contain the dazzling originalities of Lord Chesterfield, Oscar Wilde, George Sand, Max Beerbohm, Baudelaire, Jean Cocteau--all of them dandies. Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly's jewel-like writing on the sensibility of dandyism has never been equaled as the study of life lived as style. His Dandyism, with a new preface by Quentin Crisp, is now back in print in America after an absence of nearly a century. The implication for today's obsession with fashion and personality make this 1845 study of the cult of the self as timely and thoughtful as ever. In the spectacles of contemporary society, the body easily becomes a cultural text. Barbey d'Aurevilly looks behind the mask of English society in the Regency period to show how life can be lived as ironic performance. In his own magnificent performance as a writer one can feel the aroma of manners exuded by the eponymous Beau Brummell who is the star of this miniature portrait of elegant hedonism and spectacular decline. "Brummell was descended from the people of the north, lymphatic and pale, like their mother the sea ...." are the words he uses to describe the Englishman. No wonder his contemporary Lord Byron said he would rather be Brummell than Napoleon. Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly himself lived the life of a dandy in an age that was beginning to define our idea of modernist sensibility. He wrote over fifty volumes of novels, short stories, criticism, and letters, one of the most provocative his study of women, The Diaboliques. He was also the model for Des Esseintes in Huysmans' decadent novel Against Nature. Barbey d'Aurevilly died in 1889, at the age of eighty, in utter poverty but surrounded by his Angora cats.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Such a Deathly Desire
Author: Pierre KlossowskiPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791471968
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Provocative essays on language, literature, and the aesthetics of embodiment.
What Never Dies
Author: Jules Barbey d'AurevillyPublisher:
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Story Without a Name
Author: Jules Barbey D'AurevillyPublisher: Tien & Van Os
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In a desolate village at the foot of the Cévennes, a Capuchin preacher stays with a mother-and-daughter household. Despite his eloquence, madame de Ferjol and her daughter Lasthénie find him imposing, and they become increasingly uneasy around him. On the day before Easter, the Ladies de Ferjol learn that their Capuchin guest has disappeared without a word. Shortly after, Lasthénie falls mysteriously ill, and become increasingly pale and melancholy. What follows is a descent into suspicion, religious fanatism and despair, ultimately resulting in destructive consequences.
Les Diaboliques
Author: D'aurevilly Jules Barbey D'aurevillyPublisher:
ISBN: 9788726765243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Novels and Stories of Barbey D'Aurevilly
Author: Brian G. RogersPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600034852
Category : BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, J. (JULES), 1808-1889
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos
Author: Francesco ManziniPublisher: Igrs, University of London
ISBN: 9780854572267
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book examines a corpus of frenetic novels - by Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Zola, Huysmans, Bloy and Bernanos - that foreground the motif of fever within a recurring master plot: a pious young woman, just discovering her sexuality, finds herself torn between two father-figures, a doctor (typically a blood-relative, often the biological father) and a priest (the spiritual father). She contracts a disease of uncertain origin, made manifest by a series of fevers that require interpretation in the light of contemporary religious, medical and literary discourses. Manzini traces the motifs of fever and frenzy back to Rousseau, the Gothic novel and Frenetic Romanticism, as well as forward to their recuperation within Surrealism, in order to produce an original history of Frenetic Catholicism in the age of realism. Francesco Manzini is a Stipendiary Lecturer in French at Christ Church, Oxford, and is the author of Stendhal's Parallel Lives (2004). He has also published numerous articles on nineteenth-century French literature.