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fin-de-siè·cle (f

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adj.

Of or characteristic of the last part of the 19th century, especially with reference to its artistic climate of effete sophistication.

[French : fin, end + de, of + siècle, century.]

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Intelligently written and skillfully directed in the form of a puzzle by Neil Burger (Interview with the Assassin), and elegantly photographed with style and opulence in the fin-de-siècle theaters and hunting lodges of Prague, The Illusionist has a lyrical quality that becomes almost surreal.

Films of August: Illusionist Is Magic by Rex Reed / The New York Observer

While nothing much happens in Kafka’s life, we learn a great deal about the Yiddish Theater (from which Kafka borrowed certain broad farcical gestures for his fiction), the fin-de-siècle Zionist movement (which bored Kafka), the history of the letter “as one of the essential forms of expression of modern individuality” (Kafka wrote a lot of letters), and any number of momentous historical trends.

Dreary Digressions Drag Kafka Through Five Long Years by Blake Bailey / The New York Observer

Perhaps a staging more perfumed with fin-de-siècle wistfulness would have masked the scent of mothballs, but I doubt it.

Going Bonkers at the Opera: Glimmerglass Flirts With Chaos by Charles Michener / The New York Observer

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