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La Revue des lettres modernes
2022 – 2 Huysmans en bref

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Pages 7 to 10
Contents
Pages 11 to 12
Acronyms and abbreviations used in this issue
Pages 13 to 16
Foreword
Solal (Jérôme)

PREMIÈRE PARTIE / PART ONE

BROSSER / OUTLINING

AUTOPORTRAITS ET CROQUIS /
SELF-PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES

Pages 19 to 34
Huysmans on Huysmans
Buvik (Per)
Pages 35 to 49
Huysmans’ eye The art of description between journalism and literature
Kalantzis (Alexia)
Pages 51 to 72
Huysmans and “the melancholy Bièvre”
Solal (Jérôme)

DEUXIÈME PARTIE / PART TWO

RACONTER / NARRATING

NOUVELLES / SHORT STORIES

Pages 75 to 91
Huysmans or the modern art of the short story
Bourgeois (Bertrand)
Pages 93 to 110
Huysmans in brief The predilection for eccentricity in his short stories
Leroy (Alexandre)
Pages 111 to 125
Les Soirées de Médan, three ironic modes Zola, Huysmans, Maupassant
Benoudis Basilio (Kelly)
Pages 127 to 151
Un dilemme (1887) or the temptation of bourgeois happiness
Vareille (Arnaud)
Pages 153 to 176
La Retraite de Monsieur Bougran or the pull of a cultural habitus
Amara (Marie-France)

TROISIÈME PARTIE / PART THREE

EXPLICITER / EXPLAINING

PRÉFACES ET CRITIQUES D’ART /
PREFACES AND ART CRITICISM

Pages 179 to 191
Huysmans the prefacer Milestones in the history of sacred art in the nineteenth century
Delattre (Alexandra)
Pages 193 to 206
From brushstroke to glance Describing a painting
Jeannerod (Aude)
Pages 207 to 230
Joris-Karl Huysmans at the Louvre The enchantment of mystery
Pettelat (Florence)

QUATRIÈME PARTIE / PART FOUR

FANTASMER / FANTASY

PANTOMIME / PANTOMIME

Pages 233 to 243
Pierrot sceptique, an elusive pantomime
Oulié (Renaud)
Pages 245 to 267
The Brief and the Infinite in Pierrot au sérail and Pierrot sceptique
Ben Hemdene (Mohamed Yosri)
Pages 269 to 273
Index of proper names
Pages 275 to 278
Index of works
Pages 279 to 286
Abstracts
Founded in 1954 by Michel Minard, the Journal of Modern Literature is a collection of monographic and thematic series devoted to modern and contemporary writers.
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-11148-1
  • EAN: 9782406111481
  • ISSN: 0035-2136
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-11149-8
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 03-02-2022
  • Periodicity: Monthly
  • Languages: French, English
  • Keyword: brevity, format, description, self-portrait, press, sketch, prose poem, short fiction, preface, pantomime

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