Dramatis Personæ

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Dramatis Personæ

by Arthur Symons

EN·~7 hours·46 chapters

Chapters

46 total

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

0:40

DRAMATIS PERS0NÆ - CONRAD

0:10

I

19:19

II

3:09

III

5:54

MAURICE MAETERLINCK - I

17:09

II

8:37

EMILY BRONTË

8:21

ON ENGLISH AND FRENCH FICTION - I

12:45

II

5:38
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Description

A striking series of essays turns its gaze toward a singular literary mind, mapping the shadowy terrain where imagination and instinct intertwine. The writer paints the author’s inner world as a secret garden of mist‑cloaked forests and uncharted rivers, a place where ideas are spun like a spider’s web and sent out as “shadowy messengers.” Through vivid metaphor the collection suggests that this hidden realm both fuels a prodigious genius and isolates it from ordinary life.

The pieces delve into the paradoxes that define his work: the way virtue can hide within vice, how triumph may masquerade as failure, and how memory becomes the thread that knits together ecstasy and despair. By treating reality as a fleeting illusion, the essays invite listeners to confront the uncomfortable beauty of his moral indifference and relentless curiosity. The result is a thoughtful, sometimes unsettling portrait that challenges us to reconsider the boundaries between the known and the unknowable.

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Language

en

Duration

~7 hours (421K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust.)

Release date

May 29, 2020

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons

1865–1945

A leading voice of the English Decadent movement, he helped introduce French Symbolist writing to British readers while building a reputation as a poet, critic, translator, and editor. His work captures the restless, glittering mood of fin-de-siècle literature.

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