Silentiaires fin-de-siècle: émergence et épuisement d’un motif poétique

• Autores: Antoine Piantoni
• Localización: Quêtes littéraires, ISSN-e 2657-487X, ISSN 2084-8099, Nº. 7, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Le silence en mots, les mots en silence), ISBN 978-83-65713-18-6, págs. 93-104
• Idioma: francés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Fin-de-siècle Silencers: rise and fall of a poetical motive
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  • The parallel urge of introspection and meditation which comes with the evocation of silence acts as landmark for a whole current of fin de siecle literature. The symbolist era gives the impression that its actors were obsessedwith silence. Symbolist poetry took possession of silence as a way to encapsulate the ineffability of feelings and the various states of mind it explored, leaning towards an aesthetical mysticism. Yet that tendency soon turned into a form of cliché that opened a path towards parody, silence becoming a stigma of the ideological shortcomings of symbolism in the eye of its detractors. The attempt to seize the silence led to a harsh confrontation with void.