La deserción de Huysmans del naturalismo zoliano

Abstract

This text analyses and describes J.-K. Huysmans’ evolution from zolian Natural-ism towards what he named «spiritualist naturalism», much more intimate and in-trospective. The desertion of the Médan school is due not only to aesthetical and social needs, but also to personal exigen-cies of psychological principle. Tired of the usual scenes and characters of Zola’s aesthetics, Huysmans deals with the natu-ralist study of himself, aiming to operate an acceptable reconstruction of his per-sonal and familiar coordinates. Thanks to the application of Charles Mauron’s psy-chocritical method, the contrast between recurrent figures and biological facts high-lights an unresolved Œdipian conflict, source of sorrows that the writer tried to correct by means of literature.