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Genre/Form: | collective biographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Stéphane Mallarmé; Stéphane Mallarmé; Stéphane Mallarmé; Stéphane Mallarmé; Stéphane Mallarmé; Stéphane Mallarmé; Stéphane Mallarmé; Stéphane Mallarmé |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rosemary Lloyd |
ISBN: | 0801436621 9780801436628 |
OCLC Number: | 41476871 |
Description: | 258 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Corresponding -- Reading in Mallarmé's letters -- Writing in exile -- Depression -- Finding a voice -- Father and daughter -- Forging an aesthetic -- Love and friendship -- Becoming a symbol -- "A passerby seeking refuge" : poetry, politics, and bombs -- Remembering the dead -- Appendix : "Crise de vers." |
Responsibility: | Rosemary Lloyd. |
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"An extremely thoughtful and well-documented new study, a book that sheds as much light on the cultural dynamics of the fin-de-siecle as it does on the aesthetics, ethics, and personality of Mallarme himself.... In the end, Lloyd skillfully demonstrates that Mallarme's correspondence holds much hidden significance." * French Forum * "Lloyd's richly insightful study focuses on the way Mallarme's correspondence with his friends and acquaintances (his circle) sheds light on the process of poetic composition.... Lloyd's style is elegant rather than artful, and the erudition of the author, while understated, is apparent on every page." * French Review * "The book places Mallarme within the blazing late-19th-century Parisian artistic ferment and offers credible looks at the origins of his endlessly complicated and beautiful work." * Publishers Weekly * "Rosemary Lloyd's book stands out among recent publications on Mallarme for its readability and its intimate portrait of the poet in the context of his times." * The European Legacy * "This articulate literary biography... sheds new and important light on Mallarme's own poems and essays.... An important addition to large public as well as scholarly collections,... this volume will be a sine qua non for any library supporting serious study in poetry, art, and music of late 19th-century France. Endnotes, a substantial bibliography, a useful index, and excellent print, paper, and binding add to the book's value." * Choice * "Throughout her book Lloyd segues gracefully from the poet's life and milieu to his poems, always matched with her first-rate translations and subtle explications. While insisting on the everyday simplicity of Mallarme's symbols (mirrors, sunsets, vases) she never tries to explain away the poems' irreducible complexity. This is biographical criticism of the highest order; it is also an absorbing portrait of a dazzling subculture." * Times Literary Supplement * Read more...


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