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.