Stéphane Mallarmé

Author/creator Mallarmé, Stéphane Author
Other author Weinfield, Henry Translator
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.,Bilingual
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press
Description300 p. 09.250 x 09.250 in.
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Summary Annotation St&eacute;phane Mallarm&eacute; (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Val&eacute;ry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties until the time of his death, Mallarm&eacute; produced poems of astonishing originality and beauty, many of which have become classics.<br />In the<i>Collected Poems,</i>Henry Weinfield brings the oeuvre of this European master to life for an English-speaking audience, essentially for the first time. All the poems that the author chose to retain are here, superbly rendered by Weinfield in a translation that comes remarkably close to Mallarm&eacute;'s own voice. Weinfield conveys not simply the meaning but the spirit and music of the French originals, which appear<i>en face</i>.<br />Whether writing in verse or prose, or inventing an altogether new genre--as he did in the amazing "Coup de D&eacute;s"--Mallarm&eacute; was a poet of both supreme artistry and great difficulty. To illuminate Mallarm&eacute;'s poetry for twentieth-century readers, Weinfield provides an extensive commentary that is itself an important work of criticism. He sets each poem in the context of the work as a whole and defines the poems' major symbols. Also included are an introduction and a bibliography.<br />Publication of this collection is a major literary event in the English-speaking world: here at last is the work of a major figure, masterfully translated.
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