The leading poet of French symbolism, Stephane Mallarme has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde writers. In this volume C. F. MacIntyre has translated forty-three of his poems, including the "Ouverture" and "Scene" from Herodiade, which was to have been a drama in verse, and the well-known L'Apres-midi d'un faune, for which Debussy composed his orchestral prelude. The French text faces the English translations, which are both true to the original and poetic. Indeed, as MacIntyre suggests, Debussy is probably "one of the best...
The leading poet of French symbolism, Stephane Mallarme has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde wri...
Cultural Writing. 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.
Cultural Writing. This volume contains never-before-translated prose selections by the father of the Symbolist movement, one of the most influential c...
Mallarmé ist der Wegbereiter der modernen Dichtung. Zeitlebens galt sein Streben der 'poésie pure'; in seinen Gedichten spielt der Klang eine ganz wesentliche Rolle, ebenso der Rhythmus, ja selbst das Satzbild. Entsprechend schwer sind sie zu verstehen, zu interpretieren - und zu übersetzen. Der Freiburger Romanist Hans Staub unternimmt hier den Versuch einer sich eng an Wortbedeutung und Syntax des Originals orientierenden Übersetzung, die zum besseren Verständnis des Originals hinführen soll. Der Band enthält alle Gedichte, die Mallarmé für eine Ausgabe selbst ausgewählt und...
Mallarmé ist der Wegbereiter der modernen Dichtung. Zeitlebens galt sein Streben der 'poésie pure'; in seinen Gedichten spielt der Klang eine ganz w...
