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

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movement in

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. With

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he created '' La Revue wagnérienne'' in 1885. In 1901, he founded the Société Mozart with Adolphe Boschot and Georges de Saint-Foix. He frequently contributed articles on European literature and music to the '' Revue des deux mondes'' 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

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. In '' La Revue wagnérienne'' he put forward the idea of Wagnerian Art 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 Marguerite Terlinden, the daughter of Belgian painter

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

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. 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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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wyzewa, Teodor De 1862 births 1917 deaths Writers from the Russian Empire Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France