Banville, Théodore de
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1823-1891) French poet and author, a formalist and symbolist involved in various literary controversies over the course of his forty-year career. His penetration of the veils of reality may not have been lastingly profound, but the modestly transgressive thrust of the tales assembled as Contes Féeriques (coll 1882; trans Brian Stableford as Magical Tales 2021) demonstrates a use of Fantastika to grasp the unstable gist of a brittle culture. [JC]
Étienne Jean Baptiste Claude Théodore Faullain de Banville
born Moulins, Auvergne, France: 14 March 1823
died Paris: 13 March 1891
works (highly selected)
- Contes Féeriques (Paris: G Charpentier, 1882) [coll: binding unknown/]
- Magical Tales (Encino, California: Black Coat Press, 2021) [trans by Brian Stableford of the above: pb/Mike Hoffman]
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