Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck

Bithell, Jethro · 1962

"Maurice Maeterlinck.--Il débuta ... dans _La Pléiade_ par un chef-d'œuvre: _Le Massacre des Innocents_. Albert Mockel devint plus tard son patient et infatigable apôtre à Paris. C'est lui qui nous fit connaître _Les Serres Chaudes_ et surtout cette _Princesse Maleine_ qui formula définitivement l'idéal des Symbolistes au théâtre." It is not an easy task to write the life of a man who is still living. If the biographer is hostile to his subject, the slaughtering may be an exciting spectacle; if he wishes, not to lay a victim out, but to pay a tribute of admiration tempered by criticism, he has to run the risk of offending the man he admires, and all those whose admiration is in the nature o…

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