Les diaboliques

Synopsis of Les diaboliques

«Les diaboliques» is the collection of short stories by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, published by Bordas Editions in paperback (359 pages, in French).

Six tales set in 19th-century France, governed by crimes, revenge and extreme passions. In their day they scandalized society with their look at sin and double morality; the author argued that he sought to show the horror of vice, not to incite it, in a line close to Byron and Baudelaire.

Edition prepared by Jacques-Henry Bornecque and Philippe Berthier within the Classiques Garnier collection from Bordas. Work originally published in 1874.

For readers of French classics and literature students who want to approach a transgressive work of 19th-century narrative.