Summary
Maurice Maeterlinck: The Intelligence of Flowers
Maurice Maeterlinck's small book "The Intelligence of Flowers" is part of a polyptych that arose from a deep interest in nature and an almost Franciscan empathy for creation (books about the life of bees, about the life of ants...). Created in the Art Nouveau period (first published in 1907), it directly inherits the historicist desire for the accuracy of scientific observations, comparisons and conclusions, but achieves this desire for accuracy through a poetic interpretation of nature as a great, comprehensive and mutual metaphor of human origin, duration and disappearance.
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