Huysmans, ou comment extraire la poesie de la prose

under the direction of Jerome Solal

Book cover: Huysmans, ou comment extraire la poesie de la prose

Extent: 263 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Revue des lettres modernes

Series volume number: 3

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(November 2015)

ISBN: 9782812447129

Price: $43.00

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Genre has nothing to do with it: poetry can invade any form of text. Huysmans rejects versified poetry, experiments with prose poetry, and then treats reality poetically in his novels. This volume questions the nature of the link between the poetic and the prosaic in Huysmans’s work.


Genre has nothing to do with it: poetry can invade any form of text. Huysmans rejects versified poetry, experiments with prose poetry, and then treats reality poetically in his novels. This volume questions the nature of the link between the poetic and the prosaic in Huysmans’s work.

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