Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaAxël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century
In the late nineteenth century, the rules governing the artistic creation collapse and the artist experiences the crisis of representation once art no longer seeks to imitate nature but to wrest man of his earthly condition to elevate him towards the Absolute. Nevertheless, the society, attached to...
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Lettres Françaises
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/lettres/article/view/8400 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/63644 |
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| author | de Pádua Xavier, Lígia Maria Pereira |
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| description | In the late nineteenth century, the rules governing the artistic creation collapse and the artist experiences the crisis of representation once art no longer seeks to imitate nature but to wrest man of his earthly condition to elevate him towards the Absolute. Nevertheless, the society, attached to bourgeois and materialist values, does not share this longing so the artist exiles himself in his creation, his ivory tower. Poetry is, therefore, claimed as the way of conducting to this Absolute. In drama, poetry establishes a new kind of theater, which no longer has the intention to communicate, but to suggest. The line between arts merges so theater seeks to become a temple of meditation. Then, there comes Axël, written by the French writer Villiers de L’ Isle- Adam. Classified as a dramatic poem in prose, Axël reverberates all these questions aesthetically worked by the Symbolist-Decadent movement and its protagonist becomes the prototype of the hero who takes refuge in the ivory tower and prefers inaction to life, turning away from the pettiness of bourgeois society. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO636442022-03-18T18:38:20Z Axël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century Axël de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam e o teatro simbolista no fim do século XIX de Pádua Xavier, Lígia Maria Pereira Symbolism Drama Villiers Axël Simbolismo Drama Villiers Axël In the late nineteenth century, the rules governing the artistic creation collapse and the artist experiences the crisis of representation once art no longer seeks to imitate nature but to wrest man of his earthly condition to elevate him towards the Absolute. Nevertheless, the society, attached to bourgeois and materialist values, does not share this longing so the artist exiles himself in his creation, his ivory tower. Poetry is, therefore, claimed as the way of conducting to this Absolute. In drama, poetry establishes a new kind of theater, which no longer has the intention to communicate, but to suggest. The line between arts merges so theater seeks to become a temple of meditation. Then, there comes Axël, written by the French writer Villiers de L’ Isle- Adam. Classified as a dramatic poem in prose, Axël reverberates all these questions aesthetically worked by the Symbolist-Decadent movement and its protagonist becomes the prototype of the hero who takes refuge in the ivory tower and prefers inaction to life, turning away from the pettiness of bourgeois society. No final do século XIX, as normas que regiam a criação artística caem por terra e o artista vivencia a crise da representação, uma vez que a arte não almeja mais imitar a natureza, mas sim, arrancar o homem da sua condição terrena para alça-lo rumo ao Absoluto. Porém, a sociedade, apegada aos valores burgueses e materialistas, não partilha de seu anseio e ele se exila na sua criação, sua torre de marfim. A palavra poética é, assim, reivindicada como um caminho que conduz a esse Absoluto. No drama, essa palavra funda um novo tipo de teatro que não tem mais o intuito de comunicar, mas de sugerir. As fronteiras entre as artes se fundem e o teatro intenta tornar-se um templo de meditação. Eis que surge Axël, escrito pelo francês Villiers de L’ Isle-Adam. Classificado como poema dramático em prosa, Axël faz ecoar todas essas questões que foram esteticamente trabalhadas pelo movimento simbolista-decadentista, e seu protagonista torna-se o protótipo do herói que se refugia na torre de marfim e prefere a inação à vida, dando as costas à mesquinhez da sociedade burguesa. 2016-02-29 2022-03-18T18:38:20Z 2022-03-18T18:38:20Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/lettres/article/view/8400 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/63644 por https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/lettres/article/view/8400/5657 Copyright (c) 2016 Lettres Françaises application/pdf Lettres Françaises Lettres Françaises; n.16 (1), 2015 2526-2955 1414-025X |
| spellingShingle | Symbolism Drama Villiers Axël Simbolismo Drama Villiers Axël de Pádua Xavier, Lígia Maria Pereira Axël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century |
| title | Axël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century |
| title_full | Axël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century |
| title_fullStr | Axël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century |
| title_full_unstemmed | Axël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century |
| title_short | Axël by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century |
| title_sort | axël by villiers de l’isle-adam and the symbolist theater in the late nineteenth century |
| topic | Symbolism Drama Villiers Axël Simbolismo Drama Villiers Axël |
| url | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/lettres/article/view/8400 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/63644 |