The relationship between Verlaine and Barbey d’Aurevilly On the writing strategies in “Le Juge jugé”

This article examines Verlaine’s prose writing by focusing on “Le Juge jugé,” published in L’Art in 1865. Primarily an audacious critique of Barbey d’Aurevilly, it is also a carefully crafted piece of writing that is not unconnected to his poetry and his first experiments in the field of prose poetry.