Cathedral Huysmans J. K.
Cathedral Huysmans J. K. Anotace: After the Satanic debaucheries of L-bas (1891) and the sensual battles of En Route (1895), comes the cloistered calm of The Cathedral (1898). Written at the time of…
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Cathedral Huysmans J. K.
Anotace: After the Satanic debaucheries of L-bas (1891) and the sensual battles of En Route (1895), comes the cloistered calm of The Cathedral (1898). Written at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that threatened to tear France apart, Chartres cathedral became for Huysmans a potent symbol of the harmonious diversity of the Middle Ages, one that had the potential to unify the divisions in contemporary French society. In this long, reflective novel, Huysmans' alter-ego, Durtal, sets out to explore the mystic symbolism embodied in one of the greatest gothic edifices in France, Chartres cathedral.
This complex, multi-layered vision of Chartres cathedral as a structure in which art, science and religion could exist in harmony rather than discord, captured the public imagination on its first publication, and The Cathedral became a runaway
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