Author: Linn Bratteteig Konrad

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

ISBN: UOM:39015013353746

Category: Modernism (Literature)

Page: 216

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This book characterizes Maurice Maeterlinck as a «modern» writer by showing that his early rejection of language in favor of symbolic images and gestures to convey significant experience led to a methodological crisis by threatening silence and madness. This recognition caused the writer to turn back to language as a necessary, even if inadequate, means by which to carry out his artistic-philosophical quest.