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Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,281 ratings — published 1892
The Book of Monelle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,549 ratings — published 1894
The King in the Golden Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.96 — 346 ratings — published 1892
Petersburg (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,808 ratings — published 1913
Illuminations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.31 — 14,178 ratings — published 1875
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,584 ratings — published 1884
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,924 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 — 118 ratings — published 1899
Imaginary Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,291 ratings — published 1896
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,732 ratings — published 1857
Aurélia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,171 ratings — published 1855
Duino Elegies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,283 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 3.78 — 86 ratings — published 1992
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.95 — 237 ratings — published 1895
Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.14 — 397 ratings — published 1950
Selected Poetry and Prose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 4.06 — 323 ratings — published 1917
The Children's Crusade (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as symbolist)
avg rating 3.90 — 728 ratings — published 1896
Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.81 — 62 ratings — published 1967
Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.32 — 206 ratings — published 2012
Newton'ın Principia'sının Toplumsal ve İktisadi Kökleri (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.40 — 40 ratings — published
Bestiario (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,094 ratings — published 1938
Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.35 — 48 ratings — published 2025
The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Vol 8)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.46 — 328 ratings — published 1967
Selected Poems (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.83 — 155 ratings — published 1959
Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-40 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.21 — 57 ratings — published 2002
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.25 — 127 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 — 300 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
Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates & Other Historical Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.07 — 134 ratings — published 1985
Good and Evil and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,420 ratings — published 2025
The Idea of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.27 — 474 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 — 8,943 ratings — published 1832
Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,040 ratings — published 1912
Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (Collected Works 7)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 4.36 — 833 ratings — published 1953
The Place of the Lion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as symbolist)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,607 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
“In essence the entire generation at the end of the nineteenth century bears in its soul that same reaction against the suffocatingly dead positivism which lay on hearts like a stone. It is quite possible that they will perish, that they will not succeed in accomplishing anything. But others will come and will carry on, all the same, their work, because this work is vital...
Symbols must naturally and effortlessly emerge out of the depth of reality. But if the author unnaturally invents them in order to express some idea or other, they will be transformed into dead allegories which arouse nothing other than repulsion like all that is dead.
("On The Reasons For The Decline And On The New Tendencies In Contemporary Literature")”
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Symbols must naturally and effortlessly emerge out of the depth of reality. But if the author unnaturally invents them in order to express some idea or other, they will be transformed into dead allegories which arouse nothing other than repulsion like all that is dead.
("On The Reasons For The Decline And On The New Tendencies In Contemporary Literature")”
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“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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