Biography of Maurice Meterlink

The family was franchoye, so Maurice Meterlink later wrote the most part of his works in French. In September, parents sent the future writer to study at the Jesuit College. In this college, only the works of writers on religious topics were revered, and reading the works of French-romantics was prohibited. This developed in the writer the condemnation of the Catholic Church and religious organizations.

During his studies, Maurice wrote several verses and stories, but his father insisted that he engaged in a legal career. In the year, the poem by M. Meterlink was first published on the pages of Jeune Belgique magazine. In the year, he received the right to engage in lawyer practice, having graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Gene. In the year, the poetry collection “Orange” published at the expense of the author of the author in other years in subsequent years Maurice Meterlink wrote a number of symbolist plays characterized by fatalism and mysticism, of which the “uninvited”, “blind” and “Pelleas and Melizanda” were most known in the year, a collection of poems “12 songs” was published in the year - “15 songs”.

Since the year, Maurice Meterlink has been living in France, mainly in Paris. Here he comes closer to the symbolists who have a huge impact on him. He also had a relationship with the French opera singer, actress and writer Georgetta Leblan. She influenced all his works written in the next two decades. In the works of M. Meterlink, characters began to appear, especially female, who are under the control of their fate.

Leblan played these characters on stage. Parents of M. Meterlink condemned his connection with the actress, who was married and the church did not give her the right to divorce. During this period, the writer with his civil wife J. Leblan accept many guests, and also travel along Normandy. As a supporter of the ideas of A. Schopenhauer, Maurice Meterlink believed that man was powerless against fate.

He believed that actors can easily be replaced by puppet dolls and even wrote such plays as “There” and “The Death of Tentagil” for the Puppet Theater. Thus, the idea of ​​“static drama” was formulated, according to which the author’s task was to create something that would not express emotions, but the external causes of human behavior. The author outlined his idea of ​​static drama in the essay “The Treasure of Smiled” in accordance with the author’s idea, the actors had to talk and move like dolls, showing the influence of external forces and fate.

The fame of Maurice Meterlinka was brought by the play-tale “Princess Malen”; The one -act plays “Uninvited” and “Blind” are plays about dissatisfaction that forces you to search and not find happiness and love in everyday life; The drama "Pelleas and Melizanda" is a symbolic drama of ideal lovers who destroy themselves in search of perfection. Critics described this as "the dramaturgy of silence, hints and omissions." The main topics of his work are the death and significance of human life, the place and role of man in society, in history.

Also in the works of Meterlink reflects the attempts of the soul to achieve understanding and love. In the year, the play “Monna Bath” was released, in which a man of protest of a person against the omnipotence of rock appears. There the writer spent time in thought and walks. He was diagnosed with neurasthenia. To restore mental balance, he turned to playing sports: boxing, skating skating, as well as boat skating, cycling and motorcycle, driving a car.

During this period, he wrote an essay “The Reason of flowers”, in which the finest observations of the life of plants, flowers and bees are inseparable from thought about the moral nature of man, about his purpose on Earth. In the year, a philosophical alignment “Blue Bird” was published, dedicated to the eternal search for a man of an endless symbol of happiness and knowledge of being-a blue bird.

The heroes of the play travel around the world in search of happiness, and find it at home. For several years, the play “Blue Bird” bypassed scenes of the whole world. The playwright received so many letters with a request to continue the story about his heroes that he wrote a continuation under the name “Briefing” in which he completed the story of the boy Tiltil.

In June, the writer's mother died. She was sick for several months. All this time, Maurice spent next to her. He tried to surround her with maximum care, provided her with excellent care and hired Genta's best doctors. But he failed to save his mother. For the writer, this was a very strong blow, it became the reason for his subsequent depression. In the year, Maurice Meterlink became the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature "For his multilateral literary activity and especially his dramatic works, which are characterized by the wealth of imagination and poetic fantasy." Due to his illness, he could not attend the ceremony, and the award was awarded to the Belgian ambassador in Sweden Charles Vauters.

Soon M.Meterlinka was offered to become a member of the French Academy, but the playwright rejected this proposal, because for this he was supposed to abandon Belgian citizenship. With the outbreak of World War I, M. Meterlink tried to sign up for the Belgian Civil Guard, but his patriotic impulse was rejected due to age. To help his country, the writer went on a long lecture tour of the cities of Europe and America.

He gave all the proceeds to the defense fund.

This trip was a peculiar solution to family drama, his relationship with J. Leblan worsened, in the year they parted. In the year, the writer wrote the military play "Burgomaster Stymond." In February, Maurice Meterlink married the young actress Rene Daion, who played a role in the Blue Bird. They settled in the capital of France. After a year, Meterlink no longer wrote plays, but continued to work in the essay genre.

In the philosophical essay, Meterlink turns to the philosophy and aesthetics of symbolism. In the most famous philosophical works “Life of Bee”, “Life of Termites” and “The Life of ants” the writer tried to explain the life and activity of man through analogies taken from observations of nature. After changing the subjects of creativity, his popularity fell in many countries, but in France the interest in his work remained unchanged.

From a year, 12 volumes of his works came out. The philosophical works of this period were included in the collections of “Life of space”, “Big Eide Been off” and “The Great Law” in the year Maurice Meterlink bought a castle in Nice, and in the year the king of Belgium Albert I granted the playwright title of Count. In the year, the writer and his wife left for Portugal away from Nazi Germany, and then in the year in the United States.

In France, Maurice Meterlink returned only in the year. He took up the restoration of his beloved estate in Nice - the villa of Orland. In the year, he wrote his last book - “Blue Bubbles. Happy memories ” - the first and only funny book, through and through the sun. The writer died in Nice on May 6 for other sources - on May 5, in the arms of his beloved wife from a heart attack.