Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Caws, Mary Ann
2. Anderson, Jill.
3. Anderson, Jill, 1949-
4. New Directions Publishing.

Description

1. 152 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. "This volume contains never-before translated prose selections by the father of the Symbolist movement, one of the most influential cultural figures of 19th-century France. Mallarme's letters to leading French intellectuals and artists of the time appear with his pieces on language and aesthetics, as he considers the state of contemporary French literature. There are also lighter reflections on life, fashion, and the performing arts (some of Mallarme's fascinating essays on the ballet are included here). A number of sections are devoted to Mallarme's great magazine of wit and opinion, La Derniere Mode, or The Latest Fashion, every page of which he wrote himself under various pseudonyms of both genders.
2. As the translator and editor of this volume Mary Ann Caws puts it: "It is Mallarme as inventor whom this volume celebrates." Mallarme's portraits of poets and artists (including Tennyson, Poe, and Manet) also contribute to this long-awaited volume, a collection of prose highlighting Mallarme's multiplicity of voices and variety of forms."--Jacket.

Uniform title

1. Prose works. Selections. English

Alternative title

1. Prose works.

Subject

1. Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898 > Translations into English
2. French literature > 19th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Translations

Contents

1. Letters (1891-1898) -- To Paul Valery -- To Francis Viele-Griffin -- To Claude Debussy -- To Paul Claudel -- To Ambroise Vollard -- To James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- Recommendation about My Papers -- Language, Literature and Aesthetics -- From English Words (Les Mots anglais) -- Displays (Etalages) -- Music and Letters (La musique et les lettres) -- Mystery in Literature (Le Mystere dans les lettres) -- On the Beautiful and the Useful (Sur le beau et l'utile) -- To Espouse the Notion (Epouser la notion) -- Poets, Painters and Thinkers -- Edouard Manet -- Berthe Morisot -- Tennyson, Seen from Here (Tennyson, vu d'ici) -- Edgar Poe -- Whistler -- Descartes -- Fashion -- The Latest Fashion (La derniere mode) -- On Female Bicycling Gear (Sur le costume feminin a bicylette) -- On the Top Hat (Sur le chapeau haut-de-form) -- Performance -- Sketched in the Theater (Crayonne au theatre) -- Ballets -- Another Dance Study: Settings and the Ballet (Autre etude de danse: Les fonds et le ballet) -- Sacred Pleasure (Le plaisir sacre) -- Catholicism (Catholicisme) -- From The Book (Le livre) -- Reflections and Responses -- Bucolic (Bucolique) -- Solitude (Solitude) -- The Pipe (La Pipe) -- On Furniture (Sur les meubles) -- On the Illustrated Book (Sur le livre illustre) -- On the Art of Graphology (Sur la graphologie) -- On Spring (Sur le printemps) -- On the Ideal, when You Are Twenty (Sur l'Ideal a vingt ans).

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain