Symbolism in Mercure de France (1890-1898)

• Grant number: 13/13489-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: September 01, 2013
• End date: December 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Alvaro Santos Simões Junior
• Grantee: Camila Soares López
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/11815-8 - Les Livres and Revue du Mois: new literature in Mercure de France (1890 and 1898), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The Brazilian Symbolism was laid aside of the criticism and the literary studies, due to the reputation obtained by the Parnassian at the end of the nineteenth century. By opposite, in France, where it was originated, its consolidation came about in a different way. Although it was seen with indifference by the criticism at first, the movement was considered a cosmopolitan movement, and opened the ways to the establishment of the posterior vanguards - Dadaism, Cubism, Surrealism and Futurism, - corresponding to the aspirations of a generation distinguished by the anxiety of renovation. In the 1890', the literary review Mercure de France, edited by Alfred Valette, acted in an expressive way, offering to its readers chronicles, abstracts reviews short stories, etc. and Valette was considered a Symbolism Maecenas. The contributors of the Mercure de France discoursed about the new ideas that appeared in that period, and they were opposed to the conformism of the industrial and the bourgeois society. In the literary field, they discussed the true representation of reality and also the tendencies as mysticism and occultism. Considering the relevance of this publication, this project aims to study and translate the criticism published in Mercure the France between 1890 and 1898. The investigation can clarify the knowledge about the conceptual basis of Symbolism in France and in Brazil, bearing in mind the presence of French ideas in the country.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LÓPEZ, Camila Soares. Symbolism in Mercure de France (1890-1898). 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis Assis.