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    Félix Fénéon: multiple modernity

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    Literato, editor de revistas, crĂ­tico de arte, galerista, militante anarquista, colecionador, FĂ©lix FĂ©nĂ©on (1861-1944) Ă© uma figura emblemĂĄtica da passagem das expressĂ”es modernas da segunda metade do sĂ©culo 19 – naturalismo, impressionismo, simbolismo – Ă s vanguardas tal e qual se constituĂ­ram no inĂ­cio do sĂ©culo 20. Essa tese percorre sua trajetĂłria defendendo que sua prĂłpria vida multifacetada jĂĄ Ă© a expressĂŁo de um mundo que rompeu com antigas formas sociais e categorias estĂ©ticas. Com uma revisita crĂ­tica Ă  sua biografia, a tradução inĂ©dita de 12 de seus artigos ao portuguĂȘs, esse estudo revisita alguns dos debates estĂ©ticos aos quais FĂ©nĂ©on esteve diretamente vinculado: o simbolismo e as revistas literĂĄrias na Belle Époque, o neoimpressionismo de Seurat e Signac, os dilemas do movimento anarquista na dĂ©cada de 1890; o uso da forma breve e as fronteiras entre o jornalismo e a literatura nas Nouvelles en trois lignes; e seu interesse pelas as artes entĂŁo ditas \"primitivas\" (advindas dos paĂ­ses coloniais) – um debate que se estende, com novos contornos, atĂ© nossos dias. Por fim procura entender por que a escolha de FĂ©nĂ©on, depois de uma juventude engajada em todos os sentidos, Ă© pelo silĂȘncio, propondo que a aventura e a auto-invenção caracterĂ­sticas da modernidade sĂŁo tambĂ©m uma porta aberta para angĂșstia, a desorientação e, no limite, o silenciamento.Writer, editor, art critic, art dealer, anarchist militant, and collector, FĂ©lix FĂ©nĂ©on (1861-1944) is an emblematic figure of the passage from modern expressions of the second half of the 19th century – naturalism, impressionism, symbolism – to the avant-garde as it was constituted at the beginning of the 20th century. This thesis goes through FĂ©nĂ©on\'s trajectory stating that his own multifaceted life is already the expression of a world that has broken with old social forms and aesthetic categories. By the means of a critical assessment of his biography, as well as the translation of twelve of his articles into Portuguese, this study revisits some of the aesthetic debates to which FĂ©nĂ©on was directly linked to: symbolism and literary bulletins from Belle Époque; the neo-impressionism of Seurat and Signac; the dilemmas of the anarchist movement in the 1890s; the evolution of short narrative forms, and the boundaries between journalism and literature in the Nouvelles en trois lignes; his interest in the so-called \"primitive\" arts (coming from colonial countries) – a debate that extends, with new contours, to the present day. Finally seeks to understand why FĂ©nĂ©on\'s choice, after being a politically vibrant youth man, is for quietness. This analysis, therefore, proposes that the adventure and self-invention characteristic of modernity are also an invitation to distress, desperation and, at the end, silencing
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