Maurice Maeterlinck Knihy

Kniha obsahuje Maeterlinckove drámy Slepci, Monna Vanna, Zázrak svätého Antona, Stilmondský starosta a esej Múdrosť a osud. Štúdiu a chronológiu života a diela napísal Michal Bartko. Vyšlo v edícii Vavrín. Prvé vydanie.

Jde o plagiát knihy jihoafrického přírodovědce a spisovatele Eugena Maraise Duše bílých mravenců (afrikánsky Die siel van die mier), ve kterém Maeterlinck ostudně vydával Maraisovy myšlenky za své.

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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He had written poems and short novels during his studies. In 1889, he became famous overnight after his first play, La Princesse Maleine, had received enthusiastic praise from Octave Mirbeau, the literary critic of Le Figaro (1890). In the following years, he wrote a series of symbolist plays characterized by fatalism and mysticism, most importantly The Intruder (1890), The Blind (1890) and Pllas and Mlisande (1892). With the play Aglavaine et Slysette he began to create characters, especially female characters, more in control of their destinies. After that he published his Douze Chansons (1896), Treasure of the Humble (1896), The Life of the Bee (1901), and Ariadne and Bluebeard (1902). In 1903, Maeterlinck received the Triennial Prize for Dramatic Literature from the Belgian government. His other works include Wisdom and Destiny (1898), and The Wrack of the Storm (1916).

Po překladu Marie Kalašové z roku 1896 vychází v novém převedení Petra Christova tři Maeterlinckova dramata Vetřelkyně (1890), Slepci (1890) a Nitro (1894). Svazek doplňuje překladatelův obsáhlý esej o životě a díle belgického symbolisty.