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Maurice Maeterlinck is an outstanding, avant-garde Belgian playwright. Most people know him from childhood through the famous "The Blue Bird," but many of his other mysterious, symbolic plays also deserve attention. All the creators of the Silver Age adored Maeterlinck for his somber plots, in which the characters are shackled by the Schopenhauerian unknowability of the world. For a production in Russia, Maeterlinck recommended Chekhov, while Stanislavski noted: "Ahead, besides Maeterlinck, there is not a single interesting novelty." The collection includes translations by N. Minsk and L. Vilkina of plays such as "Aglaé and Celisette," "The Blind," "The Miracle of Saint Anthony," and others.