Poetiques de l’inconnaissable

Essai sur les symbolismes en France et en Russie

by Olivier Kachler

Book cover: Poetiques de l’inconnaissable

Extent: 555 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies, Slavic Studies

Series: Perspectives comparatistes

Series volume number: 91, 15

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(February 2020)

ISBN: 9782406091011

Price: $79.00

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Hardback (Published)

(February 2020)

ISBN: 9782406091028

Price: $133.00

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Drawing on historical links between French and Russian symbolism, this essay analyzes the aims of poetry of the unknowable, with regards to a shared criticism of rationalism, particularly in the plays, novels, and poetry of Maurice Maeterlinck, Stephane Mallarme, Alexander Blok, and Andrei Bely.

  • By (author) Olivier Kachler