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The Imagination of Maurice Barres

The Imagination of Maurice Barres

Ouston, Philip

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismHistoriography

ISBN10: 1487579047
ISBN13: 9781487579043
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1974
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The power of imagination to construct those mythos which alone, according to Barres, give sense and value to our absurd existence and by which, above all, men are moved to believe and act, was at the centre of his life-long preoccupation with the art of arousing and directing spiritual energy in individuals and groups. This preoccupation appears in every context of his varied career--as novelist, essayist, journalist, orator, self-conscious Egotist, Romantic traveller, anti-Dreyfusard, religious syncretist and pragmatist, and, with Charles Maurras, one of the most influential founders and exponents of modern French nationalism. His great originality among French political writers of the twentieth century is to have consciously applied Baudelaire's 'Queen of Faculties' and the insights of post-Baudelairian Symbolism to the enterprise of committed literature, using a 'picturesque and musical' language of persuasion, 'without logic-chopping, syllogisms and deductions, ' such as Baudelaire had first defined in 'Le Confiteor de l'artiste.'

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