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Symbolism, word by word
12/20/11

Symbolism was a literary movement – primarily poetic – which developed at the end of the nineteenth century in France. But it was not restricted solely to literature, and even less so to just the French mainland. Here it is summarised in a hundred words.

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Reading, loving, rewriting
12/8/11

Who has never wished to rewrite a novel’s ending in their own way? With Figures du Désir, his latest work, Jacques Dubois tries his hand at critical-fiction and reinterprets certain of the characters who have marked his reading experience.

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Surrealism: 100 words in which to say it!
12/3/10

Surrealism: the word has established itself in the collective imagination and even in everyday speech, above all in Belgium! A book in the ‘Que-sais je?’ series positions it through a 100 different signposts.

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When poets shout ‘Shit!’ at their contemporaries
10/12/10

During the Autumn and Winter of 1871, the paths of Rimbaud, Verlaine and some twenty artists crossed in the Paris Hôtel des Étrangers. The only fruit of these encounters: the very clandestine and underground ‘Zutic’ album.

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Belgian arts, between dependency and autonomy
8/26/10

How to give an account of the way a peripheral francophone literature functions in terms of its Parisian centre? That is the question to which the work of Jean-Marie Klinkenberg responds and at the same time breathes a very welcome fresh air of renewal into the historiography of Belgian literature.

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