TY - EJOUR A1 - Guyot-Rouge, Gaëlle TI - The choleric and the melancholic - Bloy, Huysmans, and the theory of the humors T2 - Huysmans, humeurs, humours 2020 – 2 JO - Huysmans, humeurs, humours (ISSN 0035-2136), 2020 – 2 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10034-8.p.0043 SN - 0035-2136 SP - 43 EP - 68 AB - The choleric and the melancholic: Bloy, Huysmans, and the theory of the humors The concepts of the sanguine-choleric and the melancholic-phlegmatic, which already pervaded their respective works when they met, paradoxically brought Bloy and Huysmans closer together. Built from the very beginning on this disparity of ethos, a friendship grew, until Huysmans’ hesitation on the threshold of Catholicism brutally drove a wedge between both men. Bloy then tirelessly denounced the cold-heartedness and the poor irony of the man of the Bear; Huysmans kept silent. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/19 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - Temperament, hatred, controversy, faith, antimoderns LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/huysmans-humeurs-humours-2020-2-the-choleric-and-the-melancholic.html Y2 - 2024/07/12 ER -