Pleurer le paradis perdu : Barbey d’Aurevilly ou la hantise d’un siècle d’or
Mourning a paradise lost: Barbey d’Aurevilly or the obsession of the golden age

Summary/Abstract: Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly didn’t like his century, judging it as a distress time. This period personifies for him all possible vices, opposed to the happy time before the Revolution and the eighteenth century. His novels express his enormous nostalgia for the past. This nostalgia is visible on all the levels of his literary technique, as character construction, configurations of time and space, the plot. All these elements are inevitably leading to the conclusion that everything is over, history is irrevocable, the future is hopeless and Christ hasn’t come yet on the Earth to give us the chance of the resurrection.

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