BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, JULES. - French writer, b. at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in 1868, d. in Paris in 1889. A personal and effective novelist, he took a stand against naturalism, proclaiming his Catholic and legitimist sentiments; he produced works of uneven but interesting value. He did not shrink from sometimes narrating audacities and perversions that alienated the minds of readers, as in the novel Une vieille maîtresse (1851), and that constitute perhaps the most singular, but also the least sympathetic, aspect of his work as a vigorous and bizarre writer. B. d'A. attempted to defend himself against criticism by maintaining that the descriptions of vice were intended solely to arouse abhorrence of it.
The masterpiece of B. d'A. is considered to be the novel L'Ensorcèlee (1854), but Le chevalier Des Touches (1864), Un prêtre marié (1865), Les Diaboliques (1874), Une histoire sans nom (1883), Du Dandysme et de G. Brummel (1845) are also noteworthy. Among the essays: Goethe et Diderot (1880), Les Ridicules du temps (1883), Sensations d'art (1886), Mémoires historiques et littéraires (1893), Romanciers d'hier et d'avant-hier (1904), Poésie et poètes (1906), Littérature étrangère (1891), etc.
Bibliography6 worksA. Dusolier, J.-B. d'A., Paris 1862; P. Bourget, Souvenir sur J.-B. d'A., sa vie et son oeuvre, ibid. 1902-1904; E. Seillière, B. d'A., ibid
BIBL.: A. Dusolier, J.-B. d'A., Paris 1862; P. Bourget, Souvenir sur J.-B. d'A., sa vie et son oeuvre, ibid. 1902-1904; E. Seillière, B. d'A., ibid. 1910; id., Quelques témoignages (à la mémoire de B. d'A.), ibid. 1928; J. Canu, B. d'A., ibid. 1945; H. Quéru, Le dernier grand seigneur: J.-B. d'A., ibid. 1946.
Sabucchi, Maria. “Barbey d'Aurevilly, jules.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 828. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/barbey-d-aurevilly-jules.
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Sabucchi, Maria. “Barbey d'Aurevilly, jules.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 828. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/barbey-d-aurevilly-jules.
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author = {Sabucchi, Maria},
title = {Barbey d'Aurevilly, jules},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/barbey-d-aurevilly-jules}
}
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