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The Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) is remembered best as a pioneer of Symbolist drama in the 1890s. Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911, Maeterlinck was also a prolific and accomplished essayist. Philip Mosley is Professor of English,... Read Full Overview

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«... S'il se rencontre des plantes et des fleurs maladroites ou malchanceuses, il n'en est point qui soient enti rement d nu es de sagesse et d'ing niosit . Toutes s' vertuent l'accomplissement de leur oeuvre; toutes ont la magnifique ambition d'envahir et de conqu... Read Full Overview

Ce monde v?g?tal qui nous para?t si paisible, si r?sign?, o? tout semble acceptation, silence, ob?issance, recueillement, est au contraire celui o? la r?volte contre la destin?e est la plus v?h?mente et la plus obstin?e.

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Figure de proue du symbolisme belge, Maurice Maeterlinck reste aujourd'hui c?l?bre pour son m?lodrame Pell?as et M?lisande (1892), sommet du th??tre symboliste mis en musique par Debussy en 1902, pour sa pi?ce pour enfants L'Oiseau bleu (1908), et pour son essai inspir? par la... Read Full Overview

Figure de proue du symbolisme belge, Maurice Maeterlinck reste aujourd'hui c?l?bre pour son m?lodrame Pell?as et M?lisande (1892), sommet du th??tre symboliste mis en musique par Debussy en 1902, pour sa pi?ce pour enfants L'Oiseau bleu (1908), et pour son essai inspir? par la... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The Intelligence of the Flowers is a book written in 1907 by the Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck. The book explores the idea that flowers possess a certain intelligence and consciousness that is often overlooked by humans. Maeterlinck argues that flowers... Read Full Overview

Maeterlinck Maurice - L'Intelligence des fleurs: Dans cet essai, Maeterlinck d crit avec merveillement les ressources que d ploient les plantes pour leur reproduction. Il d crit avec brio les diff rents m canismes qu'utilisent les plantes, attach es leur sol, pour diss miner... Read Full Overview