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The Symbolist movement was a reaction both to academic literalism and Impressionism. Its politics were typically socialist tending toward anarchism. It rejected the modern city and industrialization, taking refuge in remote unspoiled places and landscapes — as Gauguin did in Breton villages and the tropical paradise of the South Seas — and in the spiritual world, dreams and (sometimes drug-induced) visions.
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Could this play, then, be a satire of the symbolist agenda, a critique of the movement for having made life "impossible" by seeking symbols in everything? All things considered, this interpretation is untenable. Historically, the facts are clear: Wilde did not intend for his play to be a comedy. Donahue explains what happened on one occasion, when the "tragic beauty" of the play was called into question:
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The central figure of the Symbolist literary movement, Stephane Mallarme's Poesies published. He had receptions every Tuesday at his flat in the rue de Rome. Friendly with Redon and Whistler, knew Gauguin and Munch, but closest friendship is with Manet.
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