Friedebert Tuglas and French fin de siècle Literature Between Aestheticism and Realism
Friedebert Tuglas and French fin de siècle Literature Between Aestheticism and Realism

Summary/Abstract: In the present article I will deal with the influences of French fin de siècle literature on Friedebert Tuglas's' early work during the first decades of the 20th century. The years 1910–1915 is the time of the peak and the fall of the decadent and symbolist current in Estonian literature, characterized by the art-for-art's-sake aesthetics and propagated by the Young Estonia literary movement in general, and especially by its voluminous magazine published in 1910–1911. On one hand, the spread of these new tendencies is a law-governed process, similar to that of other European countries during the same period; on the other hand, it represents quite an interesting case in Estonia where even literary realism was making its first steps and the whole “new” literature had to be invented on the basis of old didactic romanticism.

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