#his gothic is a vitalist one
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« Il incline au fantastique, mais au fantastique lumineux, en relief, en ronde-bosse, au fantastique rabelaisien, au fantastique lumineux de l’ancienne comédie italienne, et non aux fantastique allemand, plutôt vers Callot que vers Hoffmann. »
Victor Hugo on Théophile Gautier, from his review of Mlle de Maupin
#yes#even his sexy zombie girlies are pulsing with life#his gothic is a vitalist one#there is nothing repressive in his interest in the afterlife. nothing moralizing#french romantics#i don’t think we needed the broad national character generalizations but what can we do
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