Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808–1889) was a writer, literary critic, dandy (a lifestyle he theorized about before Baudelaire), and polemicist—a leading figure in French literary life during the second half of the 19th century.
2026
French edition
Ardemment
The selected texts from Les Bas-bleus (1877) by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly allow us to gauge the violence of the misogynistic prejudices that 19th-century women writers had to face in their daring quest to carve out a place for themselves in the literary world, while also rediscovering the sharp style—as delightful as it is venomous—of an important and resolutely "anti-modern" writer of his time.
