Barbey d'Aurevilly, the elegant devotee
The Norman Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, born on November 2, 1808 in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, in the Cotentin, and died on April 23, 1889, in Paris, is one of those writers whose club of admirers has the gift to reconstitute itself generation after generation.
In 1986, Arnould de Liedekerke published
Talon rouge
with Olivier Orban;
in 1997, Frédéric Schiffter prefaced
Du dandysme et de George Brummell
at Rivages;
today, it is a young writer, in the person of Jean-François Roseau, who celebrates the topicality of the author of
Diaboliques
– namely his real presence, in action, among us.
Les Rêveries de Barbey
is the fifth book by this impeccably styled writer who works in cultural diplomacy.
Better than Barbey's lawyer, he is his ambassador, carrying his words and his thoughts to unexpected places.
By following in his footsteps, the reader discovers a writer he did not know.
Not only a refractory Catholic dandy, hostile to progress, but also…
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