Téodor de Wyzewa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Téodor de Wyzewa

French writer, art and music critic, and translator of Polish origin

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1862

Place of Birth: Podolia, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Apr-1917

Profession: writer, translator, music critic, art critic, literary critic

Nationality: Poland, France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Téodor de Wyzewa

  • Téodor de Wyzewa, born as Teodor Wyzewski (12 September 1862 – 15 April 1917), was a writer, critic, and translator of Polish descent, born in Kalusik in the Russian sector of Poland near Kamieniec Podolski (???'?????-???????????, Ukraine), who emigrated to France in 1869.
  • He was a leading exponent of Polish origin of the Symbolist movement in France.
  • With Édouard Dujardin 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 Le Temps, among many other periodicals.
  • His translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend into modern French made it available to a wide audience once more.
  • Wyzewa made his name with brilliant analyses of poems by Stéphane Mallarmé.
  • In La Revue wagnérienne he put forward the idea of Wagnerian Art which heralded symbolism.
  • He is also famous for his 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 Édouard Dujardin, was fully realized by James Joyce in Ulysses.
  • Wyzewa was critical of Dujardin's novel though. He was married to Marguerite Terlinden, the daughter of Belgian painter Félix Terlinden and the sister-in-law of the art critic and historian Pierre Francastel.

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