This work gives a view of Barbey d'Aurevilly's esthetics in the novel: his relation to realism, to fantasy, to the grotesque, to the sublime and to the question of exemplarity. Barbey d'Aurevilly's ambition is rooted in anti-modernism.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
