Resumen

UZCATEGUI MONCADA, Laura Beatriz. Décadence and Décadisme in France: Origin and Evolution of an Aesthetic Conception. Núcleo [online]. 2012, vol.24, n.29, pp.155-178. ISSN 0798-9784.

After tracing the first records of the word "decadence" in the literature and checking the different uses that were given to it in the West, we intend to describe and understand the semantic changes that were introduced during the 19th century and that made Decadence become an interpretive category, easily used by philosophy, history, science and literature. It is in this latter field that Decadence, after the works of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Joris-Karl Huysmans and Anatole Baju, would designate a controversial aesthetic movement that wanted to corrupt the language and distort the reader. Thus, Decadence passed from having a pejorative value to having a positive one.

Palabras clave : decadence; literature; 19th century.

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