Piantoni, Antoine2020-02-192020-02-192017"Quêtes littéraires" 2017, nº 7, s. 93-1042084-8099http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/827The parallel urge of introspection and meditation which comes with the evocation of silence acts as landmark for a whole current of fin de siecle literature. The symbolist era gives the impression that its actors were obsessed with silence. Symbolist poetry took possession of silence as a way to encapsulate the ineffability of feelings and the various states of mind it explored, leaning towards an aesthetical mysticism. Yet that tendency soon turned into a form of cliché that opened a path towards parody, silence becoming a stigma of the ideological shortcomings of symbolism in the eye of its detractors. The attempt to seize the silence led to a harsh confrontation with void.frUznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.plfin-de-sièclesymbolismmysticismparodysilenceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.31743/ql.161