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by Maurice Maeterlinck · Aguilar · tapa dura · 509 pages
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Esta obra clásica de Maurice Maeterlinck reúne sus tres estudios más célebres sobre la vida de los insectos sociales: las abejas, los termes y las hormigas. A través de una observación meticulosa y una prosa poética, el autor explora la compleja organización, el sacrificio individual y la inteligencia colectiva que rigen estas sociedades naturales, ofreciendo una profunda reflexión sobre la filosofía de la naturaleza. Publicada por la editorial Aguilar en su colección Maior, esta edición en tapa dura con sobrecubierta es una pieza fundamental tanto para entusiastas de la biología como para amantes de la literatura clásica. El texto profundiza en el comportamiento de estos seres diminutos, planteando interrogantes sobre el instinto y la civilización que siguen siendo relevantes hoy en día.
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of the group La Jeune Belgique, and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. In later life, Maeterlinck faced credible accusations of plagiarism.
