Le Trésor des Humbles

Infobox Book
name = The Treasure of the Humble
title_orig = Le Trésor des Humbles
translator = Alfred Sutro


image_caption = Title page for the 1900 Dodd, Mead & Company edition of Maurice Maeterlinck's "Treasure of the Humble"
author = Maurice Maeterlinck
country = Belgium
language = French
genre = Essays
publisher = Mercure de France
release_date = 1896
english_release_date = 1897
pages = 225 (English version, approx.)

"Le Trésor des Humbles" ("The Treasure of the Humble") is the title of a collection of thirteen deeply reflective mystical essays by Belgian Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck, his first. The work is dedicated "à Madame Georgette Leblanc."

Essays

* "Le Silence" ("Silence")
* "Le Réveil de L'Ame" ("The Awakening of the Soul")
* "Les Avertis" ("The Pre-Destined")
* "La Morale Mystique" ("Mystic Morality")
* "Sur Les Femmes" ("On Women")
* "Ruysbroeck L'Admirable"
* "Emerson"
* "Novalis"
* "Le Tragique Quotidien" ("The Tragical in Daily Life")
* "L'Étoile" ("The Star")
* "La Bonté Invisible" ("The Invisible Goodness")
* "La Vie Profonde" ("The Deeper Life")
* "La Beauté Intérieure" ("The Inner Beauty")

English translations

"Le Trésor des Humbles" was translated into English by Alfred Sutro with an introduction by A.B. Walkley in 1897. The English language version does not include the essays on Ruysbroeck, Emerson, and Novalis.

Trivia

Robert Musil quotes the beginning of "La Morale Mystique" preferatory to his "Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß."

References

* Maeterlinck, Maurice (1900). "The Treasure of the Humble." New York: Dodd, Mead & Company/London: George Allen, Ruskin House.
* Maeterlinck, Maurice (1907). "Le Trésor des Humbles." Paris: Société du Mercure de France.

External links

* [http://www.kellscraft.com/maeterlinckbioch10.html Chapter X of Edward Thomas' "Maurice Materlinck", entitled "First Essays: 'Le Trésor des Humbles'; 'La Sagesse et la Destinée'"]