Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.55.1.8

Conversion to Catholicism in J.K. Huysmans' Roman de Durtal

Frano Vrančić ; University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia

Abstract

This article aims to examine Huysmans' religious conversion in what literary critics usually call Roman de Durtal. Firstly, the author of the paper observes the originality of this almost forgotten fin-secular writer as well as the Decadence influence on his writing. Secondly, by referring to Huysmansian specialists, he tries to show why the literary and spiritual orientation of this multi-faceted writer changes course and how the return to the Catholic faith is manifested in The Durtal Cycle (Le cycle de Durtal), a tetralogy featuring the same main character - Durtal – and through whom the author of Down There (Là-Bas) tells us the stages of his own path to Damascus.

Keywords

Naturalism; decadence; conversion; Catholicism.

Hrčak ID:

236174

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/236174

Publication date:

26.3.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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