Mallarme in Prose
Published on 19. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
158 pages
978-0-8112-1451-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains never-before translated prose selections by the father of the Symbolist movement, one of the most influential cultural figures of 19th-century France. Mallarme's letters to leading French intellectuals and artists of the time appear with his pieces on language and aesthetics, as he considers the state of contemporary French literature. There are also lighter reflections on life, fashion, and the performing arts (some of Mallarme's fascinating essays on the ballet are included here). 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. As the translator and editor of this volume Mary Ann Caws puts it: "It is Mallarme as inventor whom this volume celebrates." Mallarme's portraits of poets and artists (including Tennyson, Poe, and Manet) also contribute to this long-awaited volume, a collection of prose highlighting Mallarme's multiplicity of voices and variety of forms.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
163 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-1451-3 (9780811214513)
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Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, and Emerita and Resident Professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has translated and written on many surrealist writers including Andre Breton, Rene Char, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso.
Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, and Emerita and Resident Professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has translated and written on many surrealist writers including Andre Breton, Rene Char, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso.
Award-winning translator, scholar, and essayist Richard Sieburth has translated books by Henri Michaux, Friedrich Hoelderlin, Louise Labe, Gerard de Nerval, and Nostradamus.
Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, and Emerita and Resident Professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has translated and written on many surrealist writers including Andre Breton, Rene Char, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso.
Award-winning translator, scholar, and essayist Richard Sieburth has translated books by Henri Michaux, Friedrich Hoelderlin, Louise Labe, Gerard de Nerval, and Nostradamus.