En rade - Huysmans, Joris-Karl

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Résumé :
En rade est le voyage spirituel de Jacques ruin? financi?rement qui d?rive de naufrages en d?sastres. Il s'est r?fugi? chez des paysans et tout le roman consiste ? opposer la ville et la campagne, toutes deux, d'ailleurs, domin?es par l'?go?sme et la cupidit?. Mais l'inter?t de En rade r?side surtout en une ouverture sur le r?ve et son analyse, bien avant les th?ories de Freud : on passe du naturalisme au surnaturalisme ... Trois r?ves ponctuent le r?cit, le r?ve d'Assu?rus au chapitre III, le r?ve de la Lune au chapitre V et celui des tours de Saint-Sulpice au chapitre X ; des r?ves comme des r?surgences de l'inconscient dans la vie r?elle.

Biographie:
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (1848 - 1907 in Paris) was a French novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel ? rebours (1884, published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature). He supported himself by a 30-year career in the French civil service. Huysmans' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far-ranging erudition. First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of ? rebours. His work expressed his deep pessimism, which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. In later years, his novels reflected his study of Catholicism, religious conversion and becoming an oblate. He discussed the iconography of Christian architecture at length in La cath?drale (1898), set at Chartres and with its cathedral as the focus of the book.