Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Prog Brain Res. 2013;206:73-91. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63364-4.00022-3.
This chapter considers a neurological approach to analyzing the decadent and fantastic fictions of the French fin-de-siècle. It focuses on three texts whose depictions of male nervosism were influenced by Charles Baudelaire's biography of Edgar Allan Poe and by contemporary medical discourses, including those of Jean-Martin Charcot and George Miller Beard: Joris-Karl Huysmans' À Rebours (1884), Jules Lermina's Les Fous (1885), and Guy de Maupassant's Le Horlà (1885-1887). Although these authors were philosophically antipositivist and antimaterialist, they used scientific theories of neurasthenia, neurodegeneration, and visual hallucination to probe the frontiers between body and spirit, the known and the unknowable.
本章探讨了一种从神经学角度分析法国世纪末颓废奇异小说的方法。它集中探讨了三部受查尔斯·波德莱尔对埃德加·爱伦·坡的传记和当时的医学话语，包括让-马丁·沙尔科和乔治·米勒·比尔德的医学话语影响的文本：于斯曼的《逆流》（1884 年）、儒勒·雷米纳的《狂人》（1885 年）和莫泊桑的《奥尔拉》（1885-1887 年）。尽管这些作者在哲学上反对实证主义和唯物主义，但他们利用关于神经衰弱、神经退行性变和视觉幻觉的科学理论，探究身体与精神、已知与未知之间的界限。
