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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808–1889) was a French author and critic known for his short stories, dandy persona and conservative, Catholic viewpoints.

Born 1808, died 1889. Best known for the 1874 collection Les Diaboliques (here listed as Le Diaboliche). Associated with dandyism, Catholic monarchism and a taste for the grotesque; active as a writer and critic in the 19th century.

A deeply appreciative reading of Les Diaboliques that links Barbey d'Aurevilly's taste for the grotesque and the dandy to a rooted conservative, monarchist sensibility. The reviewer praises his narrative skill and vivid prose while noting occasional excesses.

For:Readers of 19th-century French literature, fans of gothic/decadent short stories, and those interested in dandyism and moralist criticism.

 There is an age that the Gods will forever envy us for and that, from the bile-ridden fixity of their eyes, has always represented the true, great, unheard-of privilege granted to human beings, the age of sudden shudders and excessive wonders that tear through the days with the power of Van Gogh's gaze emerging from one of his self-portraits, the exquisite delicacy that we cannot savor without life later presenting us with the (salty) bill.

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