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Stephane Mallarme (Paperback)
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Stephane Mallarme (Paperback)
Series: Critical Lives
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Loot Price R467
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At the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) spoke of his
published work as very precise reference points on my mind's
journey. In "Stephane Mallarme", Roger Pearson charts that journey
for the first time, blending a biographical account of the poet's
life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and
practice. A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet', he
declared at the age of twenty-two, and he duly lived a poet's life.
But what is a poet's life? What is a poet's function? In his poems,
in complex prose statements, and by the example of his life,
Mallarme provided answers to these questions. To Mallarme, being a
poet meant many things: a continuous, lifelong investigation of
language and its expressive potential; and bringing people
together, as much in life as in poetry. His Tuesday salons were
famous with visitors including Yeats, Rilke and Verlaine, as well
as the artists Manet, Renoir, Whistler and Gauguin; his poetry
inspired music by Debussy, Ravel and Boulez; and his poem "A Throw
of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance" spread over 20 pages and
combining verse with varied typography inspires poets and visual
artists to this day. Poetry was a way of bringing all human beings
together in heightened awareness and an understanding of the
magnificent act of living. "Stephane Mallarme" chronicles a
fascinating and utterly unique voice in French poetry. It will not
only prove an essential resource for students of English and French
literature, but an engaging book for anyone interested in
nineteenth-century France.
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