Il paesaggio tra estetica, politica e religione nell'opera di Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Following the studies by Pierre Glaudes and Pascale Auraix-Jonchière
dedicated to Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, the centrality of landscape in
current critical debate allows for a new perspective on spatiality in
the author’s works. Deliberately opposed to the Parisian urban imagery
that dominates much of 19th-century French novels, the poetics
of landscape in Barbey d’Aurevilly’s novels favors symbols of
anti-modernity: the Norman countryside, the moor, the mountain, the
castle, aristocratic residences, and remote churches. These settings,
ideal for romantic plots with tragic endings, often become liminal
spaces between life and death, as well as between realism and the
fantastic.