Remy de Gourmont

Notable worksThe Book of Masks
Esthetique de la langue française
Le Problème du style[1]

Remy de Gourmont (4 April 1858 – 27 September 1915) was a French symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille.[2] The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common.

  1. ^ France, Peter (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Clarendon Press. p. 353. ISBN 9780198661252.
  2. ^ Gourmont was Georges Bataille's bedtime reading as a student. Michel Surya, Georges Bataille: an intellectual biography, New York: Verso, 2002, p. 27-28.