L'élite: écrivains, orateurs sacrés, peintres, sculpteurs

by Georges Rodenbach

Extrait:

Baudelaire surgit dès lors un peu différent de ce qu'on l'a vu d'ordinaire. Il apparaît ce qu'il est essentiellement un poète catholique.

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1899

About the author

Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach). He went to school in Ghent at the prestigious Sint-Barbaracollege, where he became friends with the poet Emile Verhaeren. Rodenbach worked as a lawyer and journalist. He spent the last ten years of his life in Paris as the correspondent of the Journal de Bruxelles, and was an intimate of Edmond de Goncourt. He published eight collections of verse and four novels, as well as short stories, stage works and criticism. He produced some Parisian and purely imitative work; but a major part of his production is the outcome of a passionate idealism of the quiet Flemish towns in which he had passed his childhood and early youth. In his best known work, Bruges-la-Morte (1892), he explains that his aim is to evoke the town as a living being, associated with the moods of the spirit, counselling, dissuading from and prompting action. Bruges-la-Morte was used by the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold as the basis for his opera Die Tote Stadt. Albrecht Rodenbach, his cousin, was a poet and novelist as well, and a leader in the revival of Flemish literature of the 19th century.

Reviews

[Tech Nossomy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Environ 300 pages d'hommages en creux à de célèbres écrivains, orateurs, peintres et un seul sculpteur français.
Un artiste ne bénéficie d'un chapitre que s'il est déjà connu du grand public. L’écrivain ne semble connaître personnellement aucun des artistes, la valeur de ce livre n’est donc pas claire.

Lire en langue originale française.

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