Téodor de Wyzewa

Wyzewa, Téodor de (1863-1917). Polish in origin, and a leading spokesman of the Symbolist movement, Wyzewa was responsible with Dujardin for the creation in 1885 of La Revue wagnérienne, through which Wagner's work became one of the essential elements of Symbolism's aesthetic idealism. Of cosmopolitan literary tastes, his regular articles on foreign literature in the Revue des deux mondes had a significant impact on French awareness of European writing, notably the novels of Tolstoy.

[James Kearns]

Téodor de Wyzewa (12 September 1863 — 7 April 1917), of Polish origin, was a leading exponent of the Symbolist movement in France.

With Édouard Dujardin he created La Revue wagnérienne in 1885. He frequently contributed articles on European literature to the Revue des deux mondes.

He was married to Marguerite Terlinden, the daughter of Belgian painter Félix Terlinden and the sister-in-law of the art critic and historian Pierre Francastel.

References

• France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198661258.

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