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Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 3,226 ratings — published 1892
The Book of Monelle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,529 ratings — published 1894
The King in the Golden Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.96 — 343 ratings — published 1892
Petersburg (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,773 ratings — published 1913
Illuminations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.31 — 14,091 ratings — published 1875
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,465 ratings — published 1884
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,411 ratings — published 1857
The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing (Atlas Arkhive, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.14 — 77 ratings — published 1896
The Symbolist Movement in Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.85 — 117 ratings — published 1899
Imaginary Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,279 ratings — published 1896
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,641 ratings — published 1857
Aurélia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,148 ratings — published 1855
Duino Elegies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,211 ratings — published 1922
Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.92 — 12 ratings — published 1995
The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.14 — 254 ratings — published 1982
The Angels of Perversity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.80 — 84 ratings — published 1992
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.96 — 231 ratings — published 1895
Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.13 — 393 ratings — published 1950
Selected Poetry and Prose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.06 — 321 ratings — published 1917
The Children's Crusade (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.90 — 724 ratings — published 1896
Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.35 — 40 ratings — published
The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Vol 8)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.46 — 326 ratings — published 1967
Selected Poems (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.82 — 153 ratings — published 1959
Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-40 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.20 — 55 ratings — published 2002
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.26 — 124 ratings — published
Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936–1941 - Updated Edition (Philemon Foundation Series)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.74 — 50 ratings — published 2014
Russian Symbolists: An Anthology of Critical and Theoretical Writings (English and Russian Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1986
The Fiction of the Poet (Princeton Legacy Library)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1992
Deeper Heaven: A Reader's Guide to C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.58 — 295 ratings — published 2020
An Anthology of Belgian Symbolist Poets: Edited and Translated by Donald Flanell Friedman (Belgian Francophone Library)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1992
Ferdinand Hodler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 2008
Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1992
Symbolism and After: Essays on Twentieth-century Russian Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1998
7 Best Short Stories by Valery Bryusov (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems: Esotericism, Romanticism, Symbolism (Aries Book Series, 2)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2006
Sexy Girls: Vol.3, The best Santa Claus with beautiful breasts and sexy body (Sexy Pictures)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
The Way Down and Out: The Occult in Symbolist Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1959
the social and economic roots of newton's principia (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates & Other Historical Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.08 — 132 ratings — published 1985
Good and Evil and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,820 ratings — published 2025
The Idea of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.27 — 466 ratings — published 2019
The Servant (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.09 — 47 ratings — published
Faust, Part Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.65 — 8,847 ratings — published 1832
Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,037 ratings — published 1912
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (Collected Works 7)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.36 — 830 ratings — published 1953
The Place of the Lion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,592 ratings — published 1931
Gustave Moreau: The Assembler of Dreams (Pocket Colour Series)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.89 — 19 ratings — published 1998
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,075 ratings — published 1910
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.53 — 631 ratings — published 1980
Roman Fever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,030 ratings — published 1934
“It was during this final Parisian period of Rodenbach's life that his literary absorption in Bruges really rose and flowered. Bruges-La-Morte was the Paris literary sensation of 1892, and he followed it with La Vocation in 1895, and Le Carilloneur (translated as The Bells of Bruges) in 1897. This kind of immersion at a distance is hardly unknown - think of Joyce, minutely anatomizing Dublin in Ulysses while living in Trieste - but it is also quintessentially Symbolist in its concern with the richness and plenitude of absence: 'The essence of art that is in any way noble is the DREAM,' wrote Rodenbach, 'and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.' (Introduction)”
― Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories
― Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories
“Thus, Symbolism and Decadence are not a separate new school which arose in France and spread throughout all of Europe: they represent the end and culmination of a certain other school whose links were very extensive and whose roots go back to the beginning of the modern age. Symbolism, easily deduced from Maupassant, can also be deduced from Zola, Flaubert, and Balzac, from Ultra-realism as the antithesis of the previous Ultra-idealism Romanticism and "renascent" Classicism. It is precisely this element of ultra - the result of ultra manifested in life itself, in its mores, ideas, proclivities, and aspirations - that has wormed into literature and remained there ever since, expressing itself, finally, in such a hideous phenomenon as Decadence and Symbolism. The ultra without its referent, exaggeration without the exaggerated object, preciosity of form conjoined with total disappearance of content, and "poetry" devoid of rhyme, meter, and sense - that is what constitutes Decadence.”
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