Word: symbolist
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...hour composing a Curriculum Vitae. The Curriculum Vitae, he told himself, I can use on the Fulbright and the French Government Grant Application and the Fulbright Travel Grant. For the French Government Grant though I need a study project. Something recondite," he calculated. "The influence of Provence on French symbolist poetry," he decided. "Il pleure dans mon coeur com-me il pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier...
Based on a novel by Russian Symbolist Poet Valery Bryusov (1873-1924), the opera unfolds the story of a demon-haunted doxy named Renata, who grows up in 16th century Germany in the company of an angel, but loses her impulse to sainthood when she decides that she wants to be his mate. The angel disappears in an angry burst of flame, and Renata keeps looking for him until she at last runs afoul of the Inquisition and is sentenced to death at the stake. Part of the fascination of this murky Gothic tale is that most of it exists...
...Pasternak admits, Doctor Zhivago is "partly autobiographical." Like Zhivago, he grew up in a cultured home; Pasternak's father illustrated one of Tolstoy's novels. In the years immediately following the Russian Revolution, Boris Pasternak wrote symbolist poetry accented with vivid and highly personal imagery. Attacked as a "decadent formalist," he switched to translating, e.g., Shakespeare, Goethe. During the purge trials, he risked death by refusing to sign a denunciation of "traitors," but fellow writers covered up for his defection...
...myth-maker, the symbolist, the seer of truths. I have wandered down the pedestrian centuries, beneath the bright flags, toting a bag of legends and singing the old songs. I have been Homer's eyes. I suggested Mephistopheles. They say--with some salt to be sure--that I pinched Beatrice and Dante merely followed her flight to comfort. I am the Muse, the Artist, or if you will, the Human Venture. You may think my costume outlandish and my demeanor strange; but that is your fault, not mine. I have endured...
...Traitor." The break between Gauguin and Bernard came when Gauguin proclaimed himself, in Bernard's words, "the chief of the symbolist school in painting," and Bernard felt that he had been betrayed. Years after the event Bernard recalled that his indignant sister tackled Gauguin in the middle of an auction room. "Monsieur Gauguin," she cried, "you are a traitor. You have violated your pledge and are doing the greatest harm to my brother, who has been the true initiator of the art which you now claim for yourself." According to Bernard, "Gauguin did not answer, and withdrew...