The Cloud That Lifted and The Power of the Dead

by Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian writer of poetry, a wide variety of essays, and symbolic dramas, including Pellas et Mlisande (1892). In 1911 he won the Nobel Prize for literature.

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First published September 26, 2002

About the author

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (also called Count Maeterlinck from 1932) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was a Fleming, but wrote in French.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations".

The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement.