ABSTRACT
Symbolism is not—although at first the movement itself was naïve enough to make us believe it was—an art of decadence, a paradoxical and rotted fruit, and a product of an almost exhausted vitality. The symbolist period was the reign of poetry; it seems indeed that today we are entering the age of drama and the novel. Adventure is what occurs, in other words, what is added, what happens in addition to the bargain, what one did not expect, what one could have done without. An adventure novel is the tale of events that are not contained the one within the other. Adventure is the form of the work rather than its material; feelings as well as material accidents can be subject to it. The study people have undertaken should include an account of the technique of the novel of adventure.
