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

• Authors: Agata Sadkowska-Fidala

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

hunger; research; suffering; disappointment

FR

faim; recherche; souffrance; déception

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 34
• Pages: 171-187

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Agata Sadkowska-Fidala

• Université de Wrocław

• https://orcid.org/0000000228618131

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

20874656