L’Ensorcelée, the novel about the Chouan uprisings, is more than a nostalgic daydream about an abolished past. By writing something “Shakespearean that happens in a ditch in the Cotentin”, Barbey d’Aurevilly has given his meditation on history a tragic and fantastic dimension that leaves one “dizzy in the face of the incomprehensible”.
Keyword: Littérature française du xixe siècle, histoire littéraire, roman, roman historique, fantastique, révolution française, chouannerie, satanisme, sorcellerie
