In this highly original and provocative study, Bersani takes us
away from the interpretative questions which the competing critics
of Mallarme familiarly raise, and explores a fundamental paradox
within his work as a whole. On the one hand Mallarme can be taken
as a prime example of textual imperialism in modern literature: his
hermetic poems seem to demand ever more interpretative ingenuity
from his readers and to provide a foretaste of the supreme Book
which he dreamed of - 'the Orphic explanation of the Earth'. On the
other hand he mounted an extraordinary assault on literature's
claims to importance. He went so far as to propose a view of
literature as an essentially wordless fiction incapable both of
communicating the nature of reality and of producing knowledge of
reality. He comes to be engaged in the somewhat eerie strategy of
celebrating literature as a way of burying it. He does not,
however, give up writing; in fact, he begins what Leo Bersani
considers to be his revolutionary subversion of literature at the
very moment when he becomes a man of letters. In tracing this
paradox, Bersani brings fresh insights to much of Mallarme's work
and suggests a unique way of understanding Mallarme's place in
modern literature.
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