Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Death
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Hothouses
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222428
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
On May 31, 1889, a young Belgian lawyer from a wealthy bourgeois family in Ghent published a book of 33 poems in 155 copies. Maurice Maeterlinck's legal career was floundering but his road to literary greatness had begun. Long overshadowed by the plays that later won him the Nobel Prize, Serres chaudes (Hothouses) nonetheless came to be widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of literary Modernism after Baudelaire. While Max Nordau soon seized upon Maeterlinck's--tumult of images--as symptomatic of a pervasive social malaise, decades later Antonin Artaud pronounced, "Maeterlinck was the first to introduce the multiple riches of the subconscious into literature." Richard Howard's translation of this quietly radical work is the first to be published in nearly a century, and the first to accurately convey Maeterlinck's elusive visionary force. The poems, some of them in free verse (new to Belgium at the time), combine the decadent symbolism and the language of dislocation that Maeterlinck later perfected in his dramas. Hothouses reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. As for the title, the author said it was "a natural choice, Ghent . . . abounding in greenhouses." The poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume, and by an early prose text by Maeterlinck imaginatively describing a painting by the sixteenth-century Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel. A feat of daring power extraordinarily immediate and inventive, Hothouses will appeal to all lovers of poetry, and in particular to those interested in Modernism. Maeterlinck's enormous fame may have faded, but twentieth-century writers such as Beckett are still our masters who testify to its undying influence.
The Life of the Ant
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0898753511
Category : Ants
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A unique and really detailed work on ants and their contribution to nature - chapters include warfare, pastoral ants, the mushroom growers, the secrets of the formicary, the nest, communication and orientation, agricultural ants, and more. Here are the essential features of the life of the ants, a life incontestably superior to that of the bees, which is precarious in the extreme,In his unique studies of the social insects: the bee, the termite (or white ant) and the ant, Maurice Maeterlinck conveys not only accurate pictures of his subjects, but a rather remarkable development of his own philosophy.
The Great Secret
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agnosticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Hours of Gladness
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre
Author: Patrick McGuinnessPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. This study, the first in over a decade, traces the development of Maeterlinck's dramatic vision of extraordinary originality and depth.
Alladine and Palomides
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher: New York : Barse & Hopkins, [19--]
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Blue Bird
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckThe Unknown Guest
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck
Author: Jethro BithellPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040622341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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