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-	''Je veux boire des poisons, me perdre<br> dans les vapeurs, dans les rêves!''	+
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-	"I want to drink poisons, to lose myself<Br> in mists, in dreams!"<br><br>	+
-	Diana, in ''[[The Temptation of Saint Anthony]]''<br> by [[Gustave Flaubert]].	+
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-	:''See [[Symbolism (arts)]], [[The Symbolist Movement in Literature]]''	+
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-	The [[Symbolist literature|Symbolist movement in literature]] has its roots in ''[[The Flowers of Evil]]'' ([[1857]]) by [[Charles Baudelaire]]. The aesthetic was developed by [[Stephane Mallarmé]] and [[Paul Verlaine]] during the [[1860s]] and '[[1870s|70s]]. During the [[1880s]], the esthetic was articulated through a series of manifestoes and attracted a generation of writers. The works of [[Edgar Allan Poe]], which Baudelaire greatly admired and translated into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock [[trope]]s and images.	+
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-	Symbolism's cult of the [[static]] and [[hieratic]] adapted less well to [[novel|narrative fiction]] than it did to poetry. [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]]' [[1884]] [[novel]] ''[[À rebours]]'' (English title: ''Against Nature'') contained many themes which became associated with the Symbolist esthetic. This novel in which very little happens is a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of [[Des Esseintes]], an eccentric, reclusive [[antihero]]. The novel was imitated by [[Oscar Wilde]] in several passages of ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''.	+
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-	[[Paul Adam]] was the most prolific and most representative author of Symbolist novels. ''[[Les Demoiselles Goubert]]'' co-written with [[Jean Moréas]] in [[1886]] is an important transitional work between Naturalism and Symbolism. Few Symbolists used this form. One exception is [[Gustave Kahn]] who published ''[[Le Roi fou]]'' in [[1896]]. Other fiction that is sometimes considered Symbolist is the cynical misanthropic (and especially, misogynistic) tales of [[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly]]. [[Gabriele d'Annunzio]] wrote his first novels in the Symbolist vein.	+
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-	The same emphasis on an internal life of dreams and fantasies have made Symbolist theatre difficult to reconcile with more recent tastes and trends. [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]]'s drama ''[[Axel]]'' (rev. ed. [[1890]]) is a definitive Symbolist play; in it, two [[Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucian]] aristocrats fall in love while trying to kill each other, only to agree to mutually commit suicide because nothing in life could equal their fantasies. From this play, [[Edmund Wilson]] took the title ''[[Axel's Castle]]'' for his influential study of the Symbolist aftermath in literature.	+
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-	[[Maurice Maeterlinck]] was another Symbolist playwright; his theatrical output includes both ''[[Pelléas and Melisande]]'', and ''[[L'Oiseau Bleu]]'' ("The Blue Bird"), another theatrical fantasy.	+
-	===Poetry===	+
-	:''see [[Symbolist poetry]]''	+
-	Two early critical works that helped to define the [[Symbolist poetry]]: Paul Verlaine's ''[[The Accursed Poets]]'' (1888), and Remy de Gourmont's ''[[The Book of Masks]]'' (1896)	+
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-	===Symbolist literary reviews===	+
-	A number of important literary publications were founded by Symbolists or became associated with the movement; the first was ''[[La Vogue]]'' founded in April 1886. In October of that same year, [[Jean Moréas]], [[Gustave Kahn]], and [[Paul Adam]] began ''[[Le Symboliste]]''. One of the most important Symbolist journals was ''[[Le Mercure de France]]'', edited by [[Alfred Vallette]], which succeeded ''La Pléiade''; founded in [[1890]], this periodical lasted until [[1965]]. [[Pierre Louÿs]] founded ''[[La conque]]'', a periodical whose Symbolist leanings were alluded to by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] in his story ''[[Pierre Menard (fictional character)|Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote]]''. Other Symbolist literary magazines included ''[[La Revue blanche]]'', ''[[La Revue wagnérienne]]'', ''[[La Plume]]'' and ''[[La Wallonie]]''.	+
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-	===Symbolist parodies===	+
-	The Symbolist and Decadent literary movements were [[satire|satirized]] in a book of poetry called ''[[Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette]]''.	+
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