It is not possible to separate Huysmans’ quest for sacred from the quest for identity. Questioning the issue of violence and sacred in Huysmans’ work leads to an examination of a dual spiritual and aesthetic quest that led to the work of this writer. The Huysmans universe and its script can only be understood by taking into account this double development of the artist. The ‘aesthetic revolution’ that romancier and art criticism have lived through an exile revolution...