Arthur Symons, 'spiritual Adventures'

Arthur Symons is best known for his poetry, his critical study The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1900), and his editorship of The Savoy (1896). Poised between decadence and modernism, his short fiction has been less heralded, but deserves a much wider audience for its haunting portraits of painters, pianists, actresses, and aesthetes struggling to balance the competing demands of art and life.

Fully annotated and supplemented by valuable contextual materials, the first critical edition of Symons's fiction reprints Spiritual Adventures (1905), alongside four uncollected early stories and a revealing selection of his essays on travel, music, and theatre.

Arthur Symons este cel mai bine cunoscut pentru poezia sa, pentru studiul sau critic Miscarea simbolista in literatura (1900) si pentru redactia sa din The Savoy (1896). Situat intre decadenta si modernism, scurta sa fictiune a fost mai putin vestita, dar merita un public mult mai larg pentru portretele sale obsedante de pictori, pianisti, actrite si estetici care se lupta sa echilibreze cerintele concurente ale artei si vietii. materiale contextuale, prima editie critica a reeditarii fictiunii lui Symons Spiritual Adventures (1905), alaturi de patru povesti timpurii necolectate si o selectie revelatoare a eseurilor sale despre calatorii, muzica si teatru.