Editing Symbolism (movement) (section)

===Periodical literature===
[[File:TheKnightAtTheCrossroads.jpg|thumbnail|upright=1.2|[[Victor Vasnetsov]], ''The Knight at the Crossroads'', 1878]]

A number of important literary publications were founded by symbolists or became associated with the style. The first was ''[[La Vogue]]'' initiated in April 1886. In October of that same year, [[Jean Moréas]], [[Gustave Kahn]], and [[Paul Adam (French novelist)|Paul Adam]] began the periodical ''[[Le Symboliste]]''. One of the most important symbolist journals was ''[[Mercure de France]]'', edited by [[Alfred Vallette]], which succeeded ''La Pléiade''; founded in 1890, this periodical endured until 1965. [[Pierre Louÿs]] initiated ''[[La conque]]'', a periodical whose symbolist influences were alluded to by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] in his story ''[[Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote]]''. Other symbolist literary magazines included ''[[La Revue blanche]]'', ''[[La Revue wagnérienne]]'', ''[[La Plume]]'' and ''[[La Wallonie]]''.

[[Rémy de Gourmont]] and [[Félix Fénéon]] were [[literary criticism|literary critics]] associated with symbolism. The symbolist and decadent literary styles were [[satire|satirized]] by a book of poetry, ''Les Déliquescences d'[[Adoré Floupette]]'', published in 1885 by [[Henri Beauclair]] and [[Gabriel Vicaire]].<ref>[[Henri Beauclair]] and [[Gabriel Vicaire]], {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000816032204/http://www.bmlisieux.com/archives/deliqu01.htm ''Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette'']}} (1885)<br />[[:File:Floupette - Les Déliquescences, 1885.djvu|''Les Déliquescences'' – poèmes décadents d'Adoré Floupette, avec sa vie par Marius Tapora]] by Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire {{in lang|fr}}</ref>