Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Portrait by Émile Lévy, 1882.
Born
Jules Amédée Barbey

(1808-11-02)2 November 1808
Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Normandy, French Empire
Died23 April 1889(1889-04-23) (aged 80)
Paris, French Republic
Resting placeSaint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
OccupationNovelist, essayist, critic
Period1825–1889
Literary movementRealism, Decadence, "Dandyism"
Notable worksLes Diaboliques
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Léon Bloy, Marcel Proust and Carmelo Bene.

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