Élémir Bourges (26 March 1852,

Manosque Manosque (; Provençal Occitan: ''Manòsca'' in classical norm or ''Manosco'' in Mistralian norm) is the largest town and commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. However, it is not the ''préfecture'' (capital) ...

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or sometimes abbreviated as AHP (; oc, Aups d'Auta Provença; ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the south, Vaucluse to the w ...

– 13 November 1925) was a French novelist. A winner of the Goncourt Prize, he was also a member of the

Académie Goncourt The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the Académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a French literary organisation based in Paris. It was founded in 1900 by the French writer and publisher Edmond de G ...

. Bourges, who accused the Naturalists of having "belittled and deformed man",Lalou, René. ''Contemporary French Literature''. Page 303. A. Knopf, 1924. was closely linked with the

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and

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

modes in literature. His works, which include the 1884 novel ''Le Crépuscule des dieux'' ("the Twilight of the Gods"), were informed by both

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

and the Elizabethan dramatists.

Bibliography

*''Sous la hache'' (1883) *''Le Crépuscule des dieux'' (1884) *''Les oiseaux s’envolent et les fleurs tombent'' (1893) *''L'Enfant qui revient'' (1905) *''La Nef'' (1904–1922)

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External links

Works by Élémir Bourges at the Bibliotheque Nationale
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