The Buried Temple

by Maeterlinck, Maurice

• ISBN13: 9781589633834
• ISBN10: 1589633830
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Author Biography

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian author, the outstanding exponent of symbolist drama and the author of The Blue Bird and Pelleas and Melisande. Maeterlinck was born August 29, 1862, in Ghent and educated in law at the university there. He abandoned the legal profession when he moved to Paris in 1886 and came under the influence of the symbolist poets. Reacting against the prevailing naturalism of French literature, Maeterlinck wrote some symbolist poetry, notably Les serres chaudes (Hothouses, 1889). He is known principally for his plays, for which he received the 1911 Nobel Prize. He lectured in the U.S. in 1921 and spent World War II there. Maeterlinck returned to Europe following the war and died May 6, 1949, in Nice, France. Maeterlinck's plays are characterized by clear and simple writing, by a dreamlike atmosphere, and by the suggestion rather than the direct expression of ideas and emotions. His early plays are marked by an attitude of profound melancholy and pessimism in the face of evil and death; in his later plays this attitude gives way to a belief in the redeeming power of love and in the reality of human happiness

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Mystery of Justice	p. 3
The Evolution of Mystery	p. 123
The Kingdom of Matter	p. 203
The Past	p. 239
Luck	p. 269
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