In Belgium, he became a household name, and he was famous for his plays, known as the "Shakespeare of Belgium". He is also a master of prose, you know, in the world literary world, there are really only a few writers who have succeeded in prose, but he is one of them, he is the Belgian Maurice Maetrinck, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. His lifelong pursuit of light and beauty, works have a distinct symbolist color, while having a romantic spirit, today we will come together to appreciate the ten maxims of Metlink, experience the various "beauty" behind the text.
Metlinck was born into a wealthy Belgian family that belonged to the old Flemish family. From an early age, he loved literature, but his initial career was not literature, but as a lawyer, because he earned a doctorate in law. The work of a lawyer troubled him and made him unable to find the joy of life at all. Because of a short period of residence and travel in France, he met some of the leading writers of the French Symbolist movement, and thus found his inner trace, namely: literature. Soon, Metlink gave up his job as a lawyer and switched to literature.
Judging from the surviving video data, Metlink was a tall man with a round face and a somewhat gray complexion, giving the first impression of a sports athlete, and he never wore a hat, like a maverick poet or dreamer. It is undeniable that Maeterlinck is definitely a thinker and a mystic, and his achievements in drama and literature have made the Flemish nation he represents famous in the world, and at the same time become a spiritual symbol of the nation, and in Belgium is considered to be the "Shakespeare" of his country.
He was a prolific writer, a representative of the symbolist drama of the early 20th century, who conquered the world literary scene with his rich imagination and amazing writing skills. His words have a poetic fantasy effect, using mysterious ways to tell the world's emotions and lead the reader to expand his imagination. The early plays of Metlinck, with the shadow of Schopenhauer's pessimism, believed from his bones that the world was absurd, embodying mystery and nothingness, and he believed that people living in such a world had to bow to fate and had to accept the arrangement of fate.
In the 20th century, Metlingk's thinking began to change, he began to be optimistic and clear, and the desire for life and the yearning for light and happiness became the mainstream ideas of his works. Especially in the prose of this period, the discussion of "wisdom, fate, justice, happiness and benevolence" is extremely obvious, the text leads people to goodness, advocates that human beings use wisdom insight and strong will to get rid of difficulties and misfortunes, and calls on people to control their own destiny and ultimately live a happy life.
According to academics, Maeterlink's plays are characterized by the pursuit of a nightmarish artistic effect, while using symbolism and allegorical techniques to impress the audience with emotions. He does not win with the plot, and does not pay attention to the construction of the character and psychology, the actions and dialogue of the characters may not be important at all to the ending, but it can grasp the reader's emotions, let the reader enter the plot, so as to achieve a state of integration and emotional resonance.
In addition to drama, Metlinck's prose achievements are equally remarkable. His prose is characterized by metaphysics and metaphysics, coupled with the use of mysticism and supernaturalism and a strong interest in nature, and the three-in-one fusion, thus telling his own mystical thinking. The later prose, moving away from the pessimistic tendency and turning to the exploration of the mysteries of life and the exploration of moral thought, has profound ideological value.
It is worth mentioning that Metlink is a beekeeper "master", he is extremely familiar with the life habits of bees, and has written a paper on bees. In addition, Metlink also had the status of a poet, and he wrote a collection of poems about bees, in which he told about human wisdom and philosophical thinking.
Both in Belgium and in the world of literature, Maurice Metlingk has a certain place. He died on May 5, 1949, in Nice, France, and today is his 73rd anniversary, so let's enjoy his ten aphorisms together, experience the connotation behind his words and the author's thoughts and emotions, I believe you will feel something.