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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist and short story writer. 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 and Marcel Proust. ==Biography== Jules-Amédée Barbey — the d'Aurevilly was a later inheritance from a childless uncle — was born at Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche in Lower Normandy. In 1827 he went to the Collège Stanislas de Paris. After getting his baccalauréat in 1829, he went to Caen University to study law, taking his degree three years later. As a young man, he was a liberal and an atheist,〔Robinson-Weber, Anne-Gaëlle (2000). "Présentation de l'Auteur." In: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, ''Les Diaboliques'', Paris: Bréal, pp. 15–17.〕 and his early writings present religion as something that meddles in human affairs only to complicate and pervert matters.〔Rousselot, Marguerite (2002). ("''Une Vieille Maitresse'', Roman d'un Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly a-religieux ou Converti?" ). In: ''Roman et Religion en France (1813–1866).'' Paris: ed. Honoré Champion.〕〔Rudwin, Maximilian J. (1921). ("The Satanism of Barbey d’Aurevilly," ) ''The Open Court,'' Vol. XXXV, No. 2, pp. 83–90.〕 In the early 1840s, however, he began to frequent the Catholic and legitimist salon of Baroness Amaury de Maistre, niece of Joseph de Maistre. In 1846 he converted to Roman Catholicism. His greatest successes as a literary writer date from 1852 onwards, when he became an influential literary critic at the Bonapartist paper ''Le Pays'', helping to rehabilitate Balzac and effectually promoting Stendhal, Flaubert, and Baudelaire. Paul Bourget describes Barbey as an idealist, who sought and found in his work a refuge from the uncongenial ordinary world. Jules Lemaître, a less sympathetic critic, thought the extraordinary crimes of his heroes and heroines, his reactionary opinions, his dandyism and snobbery were a caricature of Byronism. Beloved of fin-de-siècle decadents, Barbey d'Aurevilly remains an example of the extremes of late romanticism. Barbey d'Aurevilly held extreme Catholic opinions,〔Guérard, Albert Leon (1913). ("The Gospel of Authority – Barbey d’Aurevilly and Veuillot." ) In: ''French Prophets of Yesterday.'' London: T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 43–49.〕〔Beum, Robert (1907). ("Ultra-Royalism Revisited: An Annotaded Bibliography," ) ''Modern Age'', Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 311–312.〕 yet wrote about risqué subjects, a contradiction apparently more disturbing to the English than to the French themselves. Barbey d'Aurevilly was also known as a dandy artisan of his own persona, adopting an aristocratic style and hinting at a mysterious past, though his parentage was provincial bourgeois nobility, and his youth comparatively uneventful. Inspired by the character and ambience of Valognes, he set his works in the society of Normand aristocracy. Although he himself did not use the Norman patois, his example encouraged the revival of vernacular literature in his home region. Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly died in Paris and was buried in the cimetière de Montparnasse. During 1926 his remains were transferred to the churchyard in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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