Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé
Title | Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1988-08-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780226488417 |
It is the reading world's good fortune that Stéphane Mallarmé's letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. Mallarmé (1842-98), often called the father of the Symbolists, has had an immense influence on the development of modern European poetry. It was his ambition to create a poetry pure of quotidian reality—autonomous, concentrated, linguistically inventive. His correspondence documents the evolution of this aim, the crafting of a poetics out of a life inescapably "real" in its pains and charms.
Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé
Title | Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 1988-08-16 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780226488417 |
It is the reading world's good fortune that Stéphane Mallarmé's letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. Mallarmé (1842-98), often called the father of the Symbolists, has had an immense influence on the development of modern European poetry. It was his ambition to create a poetry pure of quotidian reality—autonomous, concentrated, linguistically inventive. His correspondence documents the evolution of this aim, the crafting of a poetics out of a life inescapably "real" in its pains and charms.
Selected Poetry and Prose
Title | Selected Poetry and Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780811208239 |
The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.
Selected Prose Poems, Essays, & Letters
Title | Selected Prose Poems, Essays, & Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | French poetry |
ISBN |
Mallarmé in Prose
Title | Mallarmé in Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780811214513 |
A number of sections are devoted to Mallarme's great magazine of wit and opinion, La Derniere Mode, or The Latest Fashion, every page of which he wrote himself under various pseudonyms of both genders.
Mallarmé
Title | Mallarmé PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphane Mallarmé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Divagations
Title | Divagations PDF eBook |
Author | Stphane Mallarm |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2009-06-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674032403 |
"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stphane Mallarm, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarm's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. The salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. If Mallarm captured the tone and very feel of fin-de-sicle Paris, he went on to captivate the minds of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--from Valry and Eliot to Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This was the only book of prose he published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Barbara Johnson, is now available for the first time in English as Mallarm arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a notoriously difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. Whether contemplating the poetry of Tennyson, the possibilities of language, a masturbating priest, or the transporting power of dance, Mallarm remains a fascinating companion--charming, opinionated, and pedantic by turns. As an expression of the Symbolist movement and as a contribution to literary studies, Divagations is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.