Villiers De L'Isle-Adam: Un Inactuel En Son Siecle

The admiration that Villiers de l'Isle-Adam elicited during his lifetime contrasts starkly with the marginal place he occupies today in the history of literature. The contributions gathered here reveal an excentric author, grounded in his time yet always out of step with it. Out of place in his own century, is Villiers not, in his paradoxical relationship to modernity, surprisingly contemporary to us?