Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly Writer

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.

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Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Birth dateNovember 02, 1808
Birth nameJules Amédée Barbey
Birth place
Normandy , Manche , France , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Nationality
France
Date of deathApril 23, 1889
Place of death
Paris , France
Resting place
Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte

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Writer

Career start1825
Career end1889
influenced
influenced by
movement
Dandy
Decadent movement
Literary realism
notable work
Les Diaboliques (book)

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