Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé
University of Chicago Press, 1988. Hardcover. Item #452285
ISBN: 0226488411
238 pages. A very good copy with spotting to the top page block in a near fine dust jacket.
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.
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