The novelist Zola commits himself to exploring the "modern world", though sometimes he is overcome by the desire to rush into that ideal rural field, where the living lion boils under the harsh sun. Then this French novelist begins to dream of the fantastic spills in the sky, the prolonged drops of sweetness on the ground, the fertile rains of pollen falling into the breathless cups of flowers.

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In his novel "The Sin of the Abbot Moure" he reaches a giant pantheism, he creates, perhaps without knowing himself, in this earthly paradise that has his Adam and Eve, an amazing Hindu poem, in a style whose widespread nuances are harshly rendered, possessing the strange radiance of Indian painting, the anthem of the flesh, of the animated and living matter, revealing through its crazy passion for birth, the human being the forbidden fruit of love, its suffocations, its instinctive caresses, his natural poses The novelist Huysmans , through the intermediary of his artistic counterpart Des Essen, reported that together with Baudelaire these three masters in modern French secular literature" (Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt and Zola) are the creators who came deepest in his spirit and most - have effectively contributed to its construction . When looking further at his other favorite books, who are looking for an honorable place in his personal library, Des Essen pays special attention to those who retreated him from the perfection of writers in a wide swing through his own flaws.

The sophisticated aesthetics goes so far as to search through the vague pages the phrases emitting particularly electricity, which made it shiver when they emptied their fluid charge into an environment that at first seemed totally impenetrable. The "hero" of Huysmans declares that he does not like the imperfection himself"when he is neither parasitic nor servant." His theory is that "the writer decribed to the decade, the writer who is already a person, though incomplete, distills a more exhilarating, more aggravating taste and an acid-like balsam than the artist of the same age, who really is great, really perfect ". In such "adventurous writers," Des Essen discovers "the over-excited emanations of human sensibility, the most painful whims of human psychology, the bold distortions of language called by his recent denial to fit, swallow the boiling salts of sensations and ideas" Thus, in the second part of chapter XIV in "Dungeon", Des Essen shares his assessments of "a few writers who became closer to him and more expensive because of the contempt received by the audience, unable to understand them." Among them he first pauses in a volume with poems by Paul Verlaine titled "Saturn Poems" - "a volume of creative infirmity in which pastoralists of Lecont de Lille alternate with exercises in romantic rhetoric but in which they appear some works in which the poet's real personality, such as a sonata, entitled "My Inspirational Dream", appears.

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