Téodor de Wyzewa, born as Teodor Wyżewski (12 September 1862 – 15 April 1917), was a writer, critic, and translator of Polish descent, born in Kałusik in the Russian sector of Poland near Kamieniec Podolski (Кам'янець-Подільський, Ukraine), who emigrated to France in 1869. He was a leading exponent of

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origin of the Symbolist movement in

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. With

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he created ''

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'' in 1885. In 1901, he founded the Société Mozart with

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and

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. He frequently contributed articles on European literature and music to the ''

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'' and ''

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'', among many other periodicals. His translation of

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's ''

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'' into modern French made it available to a wide audience once more. Wyzewa made his name with brilliant analyses of poems by

Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of ...

. In ''

'' he put forward the idea of

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which heralded

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. He is also famous for his idea of the "work of art of the future", which, according to him, should have been a novel describing only the inner life of its author during a period no longer than a day. The idea, transferred by example of the novel '' Les lauriers sont coupés'' by Wyzewa's friend

, was fully realized by

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in ''

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''. Wyzewa was critical of Dujardin's novel though. He was married to

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, the daughter of Belgian painter

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and the sister-in-law of the art critic and historian

Pierre Francastel Pierre Francastel (8 June 1900 – 2 January 1970) was a French art historian, best known for his use of sociological method. Francastel's initial period of study was in literature, at the Sorbonne. He worked in building conservation at Versaill ...

. In Ninove (Belgium) there is a field chapel (Ruysbroeck kapel / Ruybroeck kapel) in remembrance of Theodor the Wyzewa's wife, Margareta Ter Linden (1873–1901) and her grand-parents Albrecht Ter Linden (1793–1851) and his wife Isabella Govaert (1801–1875).

References

* France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. . * Kopszak, Piotr (2005). ''Krytyka artystyczna Teodora de Wyzewy'' (Art Criticism of Téodor de Wyzewa). Warszawa: Neriton. . *

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* * 1862 births 1917 deaths Polish male writers Magazine founders {{Poland-writer-stub