Book Tips - Maurice Maeterlinck

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 was awarded to Maurice Maeterlinck "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations".

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Alladine and Palomides (Alladine et Palomides)

Maurice Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 1911.He was born on 29 August 1862 in Ghent, a town in Flanders; a province of Belgium. A law graduate from the Jesuit College of Saint Barbe, his lack of passion for Bar compelled him hang his black robes rather too early. He started writing plays and wrote them so well that Octave Mirabeau (a prominent critic and scholar of the day) designated him 'The Shakespeare of Belgium'. I like and recommend his Play " Alladin and Palomides". The play reflects dramatic art and mystic beauty. The application of symbolism and almost somnambulant imaginative power showcase his power of dreaming spirit as well as precision as a great Dramatist. The simplification of the dramatic technique has been pushed beyond limits without harming the aesthetics of drama. A dramatic drama indeed!
/Dilbag Firdausi, India

The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu)

Fantastic narration.
/Dr Amir, Bangladesh

The Life of the Bee (La vie des abeilles)

This is an amazing philosophical-scientific tractate. Maeterlinck proved that he had an enormous talent of the nature's penetrating observer and a fascinating ability of its description.
/David, Sweden

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