Maurice Maeterlinck, (Twayne's world authors series, TWAS 342. France) [Hardcover]

Bettina Liebowitz Knapp (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805725628
• ISBN-13: 978-0805725629
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,524,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nearly complete but full of unnecessary detail, January 21, 2008

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This review is from: Maurice Maeterlinck, (Twayne's world authors series, TWAS 342. France) (Hardcover)

I bought this book in order to obtain a miniscule understanding of Maeterlinck's biography, because I was writing a paper on Schoenberg's adaptation of his 'Herzgewaesche.' While reading the book, I became more interested in Maeterlinck's material and sought out his early plays. This book is great with describing and summarizing Maeterlinck's important plays and essays. It also provides a nice biography, although it leaves out what happened to Georgette Leblanc. The biography loses momentum and focus when it wanders into an explanation of the history of mysticism in somewhat gross detail while only slightly relating it to Maeterlinck and his ideas.