Abstract

BERTOLO, José. The world through art: the dreamers in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights and Joris-Karl Huysman’s Against Nature. Diacrítica [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.3, pp.181-199. ISSN 0807-8967.

Both Fyodor Dostoevsky in White Nights and Joris-Karl Huysmans in Against Nature meditate about the world and about art through the figuration of the character-type of the ‘dreamer’ who escapes from reality to seek refuge in art. The comparative analysis of these ‘dreamers’ strives to inquire in what ways the historical circumstances in which these works were written inform both the ideas about the world and the ideas about art inscribed in them.

Keywords : dreamer; dream; reality; representation; reflexivity.

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