La Physiognomonie dans l’oeuvre de Barbey d’Aurevilly

by Reto Zollner

Book cover: La Physiognomonie dans l’oeuvre de Barbey d’Aurevilly

Extent: 558 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Etudes romantiques et dix-neuviemistes

Series volume number: 64

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(August 2016)

ISBN: 9782406056317

Price: $69.00

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Ever since Antiquity, the correlation between a person’s physical appearance and character has fascinated authors. Barbey d’Aurevilly occupies a key position in the acceptance of physiognomic theories, and he puts these at the service of a literature which plays on the dialectic between mystery and transparency.

  • By (author) Reto Zollner