Le Poème en prose au risque des images Mise en perspective de l’œuvre de Huysmans

Marked by the development of visual industries, the nineteenth century saw the image become an omnipresent authority in the cultural landscape. A resolutely modern genre, the prose poem integrates images into the text. Huysmans’s first writings testify to the way in which the image (industrial, artistic, optic) became a source of inspiration which not only shaped the qualities of writing but made itself the medium of the imaginary and inner images.