Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq
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Resumo: | The present essay aims at presenting, in a comparative and updated perspective, two different readings of crucial themes in regard to the XIX century, such as dandyism and decadentism. In this sense, it approximates, respectively, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), and Michel Houellebecq’s Submission: A Novel (2015), to Joris-Karl Huysmans’ emblematic novel À rebours (1884). Both Wilde’s and Houllebecq’s works, in distinct ways, approach these issues through remarkably unusual keys. The former displaces its refinement, towards an appetite for melodramatic cruelty as it explores the monstrous margin of its time. The latter deviates from the disenchanted melancholy of its crepuscular climate, drifting in both satire and cynicism, as it acknowledges the convergence between the decadentism of the nineteen hundreds and our dystopian present time, which is demeaned by the workings of human deterritorialization. |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and HouellebecqDandis, cínicos e céticos: patologias do decadentismo em Wilde, Huysmans e Houellebecqdecadentismdandyismreadings.decadentismodandismoleituras.The present essay aims at presenting, in a comparative and updated perspective, two different readings of crucial themes in regard to the XIX century, such as dandyism and decadentism. In this sense, it approximates, respectively, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), and Michel Houellebecq’s Submission: A Novel (2015), to Joris-Karl Huysmans’ emblematic novel À rebours (1884). Both Wilde’s and Houllebecq’s works, in distinct ways, approach these issues through remarkably unusual keys. The former displaces its refinement, towards an appetite for melodramatic cruelty as it explores the monstrous margin of its time. The latter deviates from the disenchanted melancholy of its crepuscular climate, drifting in both satire and cynicism, as it acknowledges the convergence between the decadentism of the nineteen hundreds and our dystopian present time, which is demeaned by the workings of human deterritorialization.O presente ensaio busca apresentar, numa perspectiva comparatista e atualizadora, duas diferentes leituras de temas cruciais ao século XIX, como o dandismo e o decadentismo. Nesse sentido, aproxima, respectivamente, O retrato de Dorian Gray (1890), de Oscar Wilde, e Submissão (2015), de Michel Houellebecq, do romance emblemático À rebours (1884) de Joris-Karl Huysmans. Tanto a obra de Wilde, quanto a de Houellebecq, de maneiras distintas, interpretam tais questões em chaves inusitadas. O primeiro desloca seu refinamento, pelo apetite da crueldade melodramática ao explorar a margem monstruosa de sua época. O segundo desvia-se da melancolia desencantada do seu clima crepuscular, numa deriva satírica e cínica, por reconhecer a convergência entre o decadentismo novecentista e a nossa atualidade distópica e aviltada pelo avanço da desterritorialização do humano.Universidade Federal Fluminense2020-07-31info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionAvaliado pelos paresapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/3414910.22409/gragoata.v25iEsp.34149Gragoatá; Vol. 25 (2020): Commemorative Issue - Linguistics and Literature: trends, ruptures, innovations; 455-472Gragoatá; v. 25 (2020): Nº Especial Comemorativo - Linguística e Literatura: tendências, rupturas, inovações; 455-4722358-41141413-907310.22409/gragoata.v25iEsp.reponame:Gragoatáinstname:Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)instacron:UFFporhttps://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/34149/25386Copyright (c) 2020 Gragoatáinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessDias, Angela Maria2020-08-02T02:31:46Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/34149Revistahttps://periodicos.uff.br/gragoataPUBhttps://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/oai||revistagragoata@gmail.com2358-41141413-9073opendoar:2020-08-02T02:31:46Gragoatá - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)false |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq Dandis, cínicos e céticos: patologias do decadentismo em Wilde, Huysmans e Houellebecq |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq Dias, Angela Maria decadentism dandyism readings. decadentismo dandismo leituras. |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq |
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Dandies, cynics and skeptics: pathologies of decadentism in Wilde, Huysmans and Houellebecq |
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Dias, Angela Maria |
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Dias, Angela Maria |
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Dias, Angela Maria |
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The present essay aims at presenting, in a comparative and updated perspective, two different readings of crucial themes in regard to the XIX century, such as dandyism and decadentism. In this sense, it approximates, respectively, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), and Michel Houellebecq’s Submission: A Novel (2015), to Joris-Karl Huysmans’ emblematic novel À rebours (1884). Both Wilde’s and Houllebecq’s works, in distinct ways, approach these issues through remarkably unusual keys. The former displaces its refinement, towards an appetite for melodramatic cruelty as it explores the monstrous margin of its time. The latter deviates from the disenchanted melancholy of its crepuscular climate, drifting in both satire and cynicism, as it acknowledges the convergence between the decadentism of the nineteen hundreds and our dystopian present time, which is demeaned by the workings of human deterritorialization. |
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