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Entre la danse macabre et l ’apologie de la vie, ou les vanités selon Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Litwinowicz Z.

Quêtes littéraires

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2018

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vol. 8

129-139

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In Joris-Karl Huysmans ’ works, particularly those created in the transi-tion between his decadent phase, symbolised by Down there (1891), and the period of mystical naturalism, which reaches its peak with The Cathedral (1898), it is possi-ble to trace a complete and profound evolution of the vanitas motif. This article offers an analysis of three major stages of this change. It begins with the macabre vanitas characteristic for Down there. It is interpreted in the light of Félicien Rops ’ aesthetics, which fascinates Huysmans in the 1880s, and the artistic adaptations of the tempta-tion of saint Anthony in late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Then, the article examines Huysmans ’ approach to the Karlsruhe and the Isenheim Altar pieces by Matthias Grünewald, which marks a transition between the aesthetics of the dance of death and the mystical naturalism. The article finishes with a study of Grünewald ’s ekphraseis’ legacy : the apology of life, a new interpretation of the vanitas in The Cathedral.

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Dans l ’œuvre huysmansienne, en particulier celle de la transition entre sa phase décadente, marquée par Là-bas (1891), et la période du naturalisme mys-tique, dont le fruit le plus mûr reste La Cathédrale (1898), il est possible de retracer la transformation complète et profonde du traitement de la vanitas. Le présent article propose une analyse de trois étapes de cette évolution. Il part de la vanitas macabre de Là-bas, proche de l ’esthétique de Félicien Rops, auquel Huysmans s ’intéresse dans les années 1880, et du motif de la tentation de saint Antoine dans les arts de la fin du Moyen-Âge et du début de Renaissance. Ensuite, il examine l ’approche huysman-sienne à la Crucifixion de Cassel et au retable d ’Issenheim de Matthias Grünewald, qui constitue un passage entre l ’esthétique de la danse macabre et celle du natura-lisme mystique. Finalement, il étudie le legs des ekphraseis de Grünewald : l ’apologie de la vie et un regard nouveau sur la vanitas dans La Cathédrale.

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Nieustające powroty. O literackim i artystycznym odkrywaniu Mallarmégo

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Opiela-Mrozik A.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2017

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vol. 61(4 (459))

163-171

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The article discusses selected literary and artistic discoveries of Mallarmé’s aesthetics from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century. Mallarmé, whom Verlaine included in the circle of “poètes maudit” and who was considered a master of decadence thanks to Huysmans’s novel Against Nature, was announced a surrealist in Surrealism Manifesto by André Breton and his name appeared in the writing of Valéry and other 20th-century poets and writers. The Cubists were delighted with “spatialization” of poetry in A Roll of the Dice. In addition, constant discovering of the poet by the composers – from Debussy and Ravel, through Boulez, to the contemporary artists such as Marc-André Dalbavie or Jean-Luc Hervé cannot be overlooked.

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Kryzys powieści, powieść kryzysu. Projekt wyjścia z „naturalistycznego impasu” w powieści Là-Bas Jorisa-Karla Huysmansa

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Krzyżosiak K.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2020

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issue 37

231-248

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This article attempts to reconstruct the key aspects of the criticism of literary naturalism present in J. K. Huysmans’ 1891 novel Là-Bas. The analysis is based on the opening dialogues of the characters and the following aesthetic considerations which appear to express not only the creative and spiritual transformation of the author himself, but also the ambience of anti-positivist turn of fin de siècle which, entering modernity, tries to free itself from the reductionist frames of naturalism and reveals an increasing interest towards the unconscious.

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The Monastic Hermitage in the End of 19thCentury French Literature: a New Identity Space

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Cedergren M.

Human and Social Studies

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2015

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vol. 4

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issue 2

103-118

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Through a comparative reading of three novels of the late nineteenth century, namely Le Disciple, A rebours and Un homme libre, the monastic hermitage has emerged as a common place in which the protagonists of the novels, in search for a spiritual space, let themselves be shaped and transformed by the materiality of places. Through the consideration of the specific features of these closed and sacred sanctuaries, as well as the identity and the dream of the end of the 19th century man, a new literature searching for an ideal will appear openly.

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Literature of Exhaustion: Representations of Mental Fatigue in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s „Against Nature" and Wilkie Collins’s „The Woman in White"

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Nitka M.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2023

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issue 46

169-183

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A phenomenon known well before the onset of modern society, registered as a medical term not until the second half of the 19th century, when physiologists and psychologists inquired into physical and mental exhaustion resulting from excessive work as well as that which had no work-related etiology. Such condition of the severe mental fatigue which entailed deficiency of nerve-force was defined by American neurologist George M. Beard as neurasthenia. Taking into account scientific studies of enervation, the article examines some late 19th-century literary treatments of exhaustion in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Against Nature and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White to present them as peculiar, decontextualized cases of exhaustion for exhaustion’s sake.

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Between blasphemy and desire for the sacred. Modernist litanies à rebours

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Majewska J.

Nauka

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2017

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issue 3

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In the second half of the 19th century in the European culture appears an increased interest in evil. This phenomenon is widely spread particularly in France and England. In his famous volume of poems Les Fleurs du Mal Charles Baudelaire publishes The Litanies for Satan where the Devil replaces God as the addressee of a blasphemous prayer. Joris-Karl Huysmans, an author of the novel Là-bas, describes a black mess and a litany addressed to Satan who seems to be closer to sinful people than perfectly indifferent God. A poet from the Huysmans’ artictic circle, Édouard Dubus, devotes his litany to a „Lady of grace and immorality” – a blasphemous double of Mary, mother of Jesus. An English poet Charles Algernon Swinburne writes Dolores, a poem addressed to „Our Lady of Pain” and recognised as the apogee of the satanic litany. In all these cases the choice of a litany as a literary genre results in acceptance of a vision of the world broaden with spirituality. In spite of their seemingly blasphemous plots, all these texts express a deep hunger for the sacred – the hunger that could not be satisfied with official religion.

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