Élémir Bourges (; 26 March 1852, Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 13 November 1925) was a French novelist. A winner of the Goncourt Prize,Fitzgerald, Michael C. Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art. Page 170. University of California Press, 1996. he was also a member of the Académie Goncourt. Bourges, who accused the Naturalists of having "belittled and deformed man",Lalou, René. Contemporary French Literature. Page 303. A. Knopf, 1924. was closely linked with the Decadent and Symbolist modes in literature. His works, which include the 1884 novel Le Crépuscule des dieux ("the Twilight of the Gods"), were informed by both Richard Wagner and the Elizabethan dramatists.
Bibliography Sous la hache (1883) Le Crépuscule des dieux (1884) Les oiseaux s’envolent et les fleurs tombent (1893) L'Enfant qui revient (1905) La Nef (1904–1922)
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External links Works by Élémir Bourges at the Bibliotheque Nationale