Léon Hennique Novel
Complete Novel 'A Character' & Rare French Literary Translations
Category: French Translations
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ON TRUTH AND BEAUTY I II III IV Note THE ACCOMPLISHED FORMULAE Introduction I. Analysis The Soul Alone Sentiment Alone Sensation Alone Summary of the Analysis II. The Synthesis III. Transitions I II III Note NEW INFLUENCES NEW FORMULAE Introduction The Poets The Novelists The Critics COMMENTARY ON A FUTURE BOOK Introduction Synthesis in Metaphysical…
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What follows is the first English translation of Achille Delaroche’s “Les Annales du Symbolisme” (“The Annals of Symbolism”), originally published in La Plume No. 41, 1st January 1891—a journal devoted to independent literature, criticism, and art. Written at a pivotal moment in the Symbolist movement’s history, Delaroche’s essay offers an invaluable insider’s chronicle of the…
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“Le Fiasco Symboliste” was published in La Revue Indépendante, Paris, in the July 1891 number — a moment of particular significance, coming in the immediate aftermath of Jules Huret’s celebrated Enquête sur l’Évolution littéraire, which had brought the Symbolist controversy to the attention of the wider French reading public. The article’s authors, Gaston and Jules…
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Jean Moréas (1856–1910), French poet.Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse / Bibliothèque nationale de France This preface to Le Pèlerin passionné was published in La Plume in January 1891, in the same issue as Maurice Barrès’s critical essay on Moréas, and serves in many respects as its natural companion piece. Written in Paris on 24 November…
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Anatole France, caricature by Jean Baptiste Guth (1909)”The Greatest Living Frenchman” — Vanity Fair, 11 August 1909 Anatole France (1844–1924) — novelist, critic, and eventual Nobel laureate — was among the most celebrated French prose stylists of his age. This short critical essay, published in La Plume (No. 41, 1 January 1891), appeared at a…
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This essay by Maurice du Plessys was published as an appendix to the first January 1891 issue of La Plume — No. 41 — in the same number as Maurice Barrès’s critical appreciation of Moréas and Moréas’s own preface to Le Pèlerin passionné, making it the third element of a remarkable triptych of Symbolist advocacy.…
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Léon Bloy, photograph by Dornac (Nos contemporains chez eux) The two texts presented here — a lecture and a letter — were first published in La Plume (Paris) in 1891 and appear here for the first time in English translation. The lecture, Les Funérailles du Naturalisme (“The Funeral Rites of Naturalism”), was delivered by Léon…
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Camille Mauclair, photograph attr. to Dupont (1896)Collection: Fondation Catherine Gide This essay by Camille Mauclair — one of the most gifted and combative critical voices of the French Symbolist generation — was first published in La Revue Indépendante in July 1891, at a precise and electrifying moment in French literary history. Moréas had just published…
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PROLOGUE. One sorrow is reborn as another fades;When one grief gutters out, a new grief has unfurled;Life is a briar that blooms in the tears it has made. Within my sombre breast, as in a tilting-yard,Three horsemen dash and clash and will not be at peace,And these three horsemen, to my very self attached,Contend for…
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