How does one classify À rebours in a library catalog? Since it is “arrangement” or “unclassifiability” that are in question here. À rebours evokes the library as a diegetic object and stages its own hybridity; it is a specular object. The installation of a library - its decoration, the selection and construction - means giving the book a preponderant place in the House at Fontenay. Hence Jean de Palacio’s question: is À rebours in Des Esseintes’ library?
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques