Famished Writer

I stumbled across the term ‘fin de siècle’ relating to an artistic renaissance in the late 19 th century, but more specifically this term was applied to describing a “ socially engaged littérateur ”, as in the trade itself of writing professionally.  This term, with obvious French derivatives, translates directly into a writer, or literary connoisseur, that composes words on a number of levels, for a variety of purposes and uses as well as a wordsmith by trade or profession. Photo By Daderot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons It’s ironic how trends resurface under the name “retro”, words too can be recycled, rehashed and re-appreciated by a new audience. It is even more poignant that this term, social engaged littérateur can mean something entirely appropriate and different today, with the additional meaning of ‘socially engaged’. Most of us know this to mean involved with the online word, connected not just physically or with wi-fi (but it has become a nec...