Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (November 7, 1838 – August 19, 1889) was a French symbolist writer.
He was born in Saint-Brieuc, in Brittany.
His works, in the romantic style, are often fantastic in plot and filled with mystery and horror. Important among them are the drama Axel (revision, 1890), the novel L'Ève future ("Tomorrow's Eve") (1886), and the short-story collection, Contes cruels (1883, tr. Sardonic Tales, 1927). He coined the term "Android" (Andréide in French) in L'Ève future.
He believed the imagination has within it much more beauty than reality itself, existing at a level which nothing real could compare.
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