Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838 to 1889) was a French writer of the symbolist generation, born into an old Breton noble family at Saint-Brieuc and active in Paris from 1860. He wrote verse, plays, short stories and novels, and is remembered chiefly for the story collection Contes cruels (1883), whose title gave the short-story genre of the conte cruel its name, for the novel L'Eve future (1886), which helped popularize the word android, and for the verse drama Axel, published after his death in 1890. His work mixes the fantastic, horror and irony, and it carries the mark of the Romantic theatre and of Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe, whom he came to know through the Paris literary circle around Baudelaire. He lived in poverty for most of his life, admired by Stephane Mallarme and Joris-Karl Huysmans but little read by the public, and he died of stomach cancer in Paris, having married the mother of his son on his deathbed. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
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Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838-19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer
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Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838-19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer
Writings, novel form
the drama Axël (1890), the novel The Future Eve (1886), and the short-story collection Contes cruels (1883
Writings, story collection
the drama Axël (1890), the novel The Future Eve (1886), and the short-story collection Contes cruels (1883
Writings, drama form
the drama Axël (1890), the novel The Future Eve (1886), and the short-story collection Contes cruels (1883
Writings, short-story form
the drama Axël (1890), the novel The Future Eve (1886), and the short-story collection Contes cruels (1883
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was a French symbolist writer
In Genre: Horror Fiction, Writings, horror
Contes cruels is regarded as an important collection of horror stories
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the short-story collection Contes cruels (1883
In Genre: Drama, Writings, drama
the drama Axël (1890)
In Movement: Symbolism, Lead, movement
was a French symbolist writer
In Movement: Romanticism, Writings, style
Villiers' works, in the Romantic style
Influenced By: Charles Baudelaire, Life, influences
Poe and Baudelaire would become the biggest influences on Villiers' mature style
Influenced By: Edgar Allan Poe, Life, influences
Poe and Baudelaire would become the biggest influences on Villiers' mature style
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