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Axel (New Library of French Classics)

hardcover – January 1, 1970
by Villiers De I'Isle-Adam, Philippe Auguste
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ISBN-13: 9780130552365 ISBN-10: 0130552364
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 1970
Weight
1.0 lbs
Dimensions
0.00×0.00×0.00 cm

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Axel (New Library of French Classics) by Villiers De I'Isle-Adam, Philippe Auguste. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780130552365.

The epitome of symbolist drama. "Count Villiers de Ilsle-Adam", wrote Yeats, "swept together words behind which glimmered a spiritual and passionate mood, as the flame glimmers behind the dusky blue and red glass in an Eastern lamp". Paralleling the authors own metaphysical studies (which moved from occultism to more orthodox idealisms and back to Catholicism), these positions were examined by his characters. Each is rejected, and it is with the dramatic discovery of the highest ideal that the work ends.