Abstract
Is Huysmans' misogyny identical by nature to Michelet 's, Laforgue's or even Baudelaire's misogynies ? Can J.K. Huysmans be related to an old Christian misogynistic tradition ? Or is his misogyny, as well as his antisemitism, the matter of a more personal conflict and a sort of protection against the agressions of the outside world ? In other words should not we consider Huysmans' misogyny as the product of an inability to live, of a body and soul disorder, as one of the rites of preservation helping him to reach the Infinite. Is not this mystical quest a way to soothe Huysmans' conflictual nature in which, devout Catholicism, Marian cult, stupendous conversion along with dénégation of women, Jews, Free-masonry and Americanism are nothing but "recettes de l'absolu".
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