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Excerpt from Essai sur le Naturisme
Enfin, dans le roman, les Goncourt se consacrent � l'�criture artiste et effritent, pour de d�licieux enjolivements de d�tails, la forme naissante de l'epop�e moderne. Emile Zola, incompris malgr� ses fresques colossales, se voit pr�f�rer M. Huysmans, psychologue saugrenu et sans passion, aride �crivain de faciles mono graphies d�liquescentes, d'un r�alisme grossier, p�nible et sans syntaxe. Symptomatiques pen chants de l'elite intellectuelle, qui m�conna�t la radieuse sant�, les �dens' de chairs et de soleil, resplendissant dans Germinal ou dans la Terre, et se divertit b�atement aux mamies c�nobitiques, aux d�formations psychologiques d'aussi m�diocres prototypes que des Esseintes ou Durtal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
