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Paperback. A vibrant new translation of a modernist poet Translator(s): Bronson-Bartlett, Blake; Fernandez, Robert. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
During his lifetime, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898) was recognized as one of the greatest living French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of reality and his desire to turn away from it, marrying form and content in revolutionary ways that departed drastically from the more tightly controlled French tradition. Despite his status as one of the first modernists, much of Mallarmé's radicalism has been lost in translation. Finally, in this new collection by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez, the magic and mastery of form and diction, so striking in Mallarmé's French verse, comes to life in English. Drawing from ... Read more
During his lifetime, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898) was recognized as one of the greatest living French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of reality and his desire to turn away from it, marrying form and content in revolutionary ways that departed drastically from the more tightly controlled French tradition. Despite his status as one of the first modernists, much of Mallarmé's radicalism has been lost in translation. Finally, in this new collection by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez, the magic and mastery of form and diction, so striking in Mallarmé's French verse, comes to life in English. Drawing from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819575807
SKU
V9780819575807
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Ref
99-1
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