Collected Poems - Brossura

Mallarme, Stephane

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520207114 ISBN 13: 9780520207110

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1996

Riassunto

Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valéry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties until the time of his death, Mallarmé produced poems of astonishing originality and beauty, many of which have become classics.

In the Collected Poems, Henry Weinfield brings the oeuvre of this European master to life for an English-speaking audience, essentially for the first time. All the poems that the author chose to retain are here, superbly rendered by Weinfield in a translation that comes remarkably close to Mallarmé's own voice. Weinfield conveys not simply the meaning but the spirit and music of the French originals, which appearen face.

Whether writing in verse or prose, or inventing an altogether new genreas he did in the amazing "Coup de Dés"Mallarmé was a poet of both supreme artistry and great difficulty. To illuminate Mallarmé's poetry for twentieth-century readers, Weinfield provides an extensive commentary that is itself an important work of criticism. He sets each poem in the context of the work as a whole and defines the poems' major symbols. Also included are an introduction and a bibliography.

Publication of this collection is a major literary event in the English-speaking world: here at last is the work of a major figure, masterfully translated.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

Henry Weinfield, Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, is author of three collections of poetry andThe Poet without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History (1991).

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

"Weinfield's versions are superbtrue miracles, I believeand give us the flavor of Mallarmé's work for the first time."Paul Auster, Editor,The Random House Book of 20th-Century French Poetry

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520207114
• ISBN 13: 9780520207110
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 300
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile