Through the application of Charles Mauron�s psychocritical method, we have searched which elements of Huysmans� Croquis parisiens were the first formulation of some �obsessif personal myths�, continued in later novels: from En ménage (1881) until the last of Durtal�s cycle L�oblat (1903).
The connections we have found between the elements of these Croquis and the posterior work of Huysmans� are: the vocational singleman who has the leading role (André Jayant, des Esseintes or Durtal), the guilty sexuality of Huysmans� �fictional heteronymous�, the usual presence of Pierrot and the castration anxiety he produces, the femmes fatales and/or fantastic in the imagination of the author, the powerful and productif Huysmans� onyrism, and, at last, the common use of metaphors of liquid origin. All of them are present in germ, as a first formulation, in these Croquis, what shows the seminal importance of this collection of short stories.
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