For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a doma

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For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.
----Charles Bernheimer

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