{"title":"Stephane Mallarme","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the evocative world of \u003cstrong\u003eStéphane Mallarmé\u003c\/strong\u003e, where language is sculpted into intricate, symbolic forms. His works invite readers into a realm of poetic innovation, blending music and meaning to challenge conventional expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom seminal poems like \u003cem\u003eA Roll of the Dice\u003c\/em\u003e to comprehensive collections of his verse and prose, Mallarmé’s writing offers a profound journey into the arts and culture of French symbolism. These texts reveal the delicate craft of a poet who reshaped modern literary aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"selected-poetry-and-prose-by-stephane-mallarme-9780811208239","title":"Selected Poetry and Prose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected Poetry and Prose\u003c\/em\u003e of Stéphane Mallarmé presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned \"father of the Symbolists.\" Mallarmé's major elegies, sonnets, and other verse, including excerpts from the dialogue \"Hériodiade,\" are all assembled here with the French and English texts en face. Also included (not bilingually) are the visual poem \"Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance\" and the drama \"Igitur,\" as well as letters, essays, and reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough his primary concern was with poetry, the aesthetics of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) has touched all the arts. During the last twenty years of his life, his Paris apartment was a major literary gathering place. Every Tuesday evening, standing beneath the portrait of himself by his friend Edouard Manet, the poet addressed reverent gatherings which included at various times Paul Valery and André Gide, among many others. The American painter James Whistler was influenced by these \"Mardis,\" and one of the best-known poems in the present collection, \"The Afternoon of a Faun,\" inspired Claude Debussy's famous musical composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn translation, the subtle and varied shades of Mallarmé's oeuvre may best be rendered by diverse hands. Editor Mary Ann Caws, the author of books on René Char, Robert Desnos, and various aspects of modern French writing, has brought together the work of fourteen translators, spanning a century, from the Symbolists and the Bloomsbury group (George Moore and Roger Fry) to Cid Corman, Brian Coffey, and other contemporary poets and writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464198406380,"sku":"9780811208239","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811208239-selected-poetry-and-prose.jpg?v=1775042024"},{"product_id":"collected-poems-of-mallarme-by-stephane-mallarme-9780520268142","title":"Collected Poems of Mallarme","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStéphane 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 appear \u003ci\u003een face\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether writing in verse or prose, or inventing an altogether new genre—as 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublication 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470305607916,"sku":"9780520268142","price":58.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520268142-collected-poems-of-mallarme.jpg?v=1775215840"},{"product_id":"a-roll-of-the-dice-by-stephane-mallarme-9781950268948","title":"A Roll of the Dice","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePreviously only available in hardcover, and after a long period of being unavailable, one of Wave's most popular titles, \u003cem\u003eA Roll of the Dice\u003c\/em\u003e by Stephane Mallarme, is now available in paperback.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough brilliant collaboration, Robert Bononno and book designer Jeff Clark translated one of Mallarme's most well-known and visually complex poems into contemporary English language and design. This bilingual softcover edition not only includes Mallarme's original preface, but also matches the typography of the last round of proofs that Mallarme was correcting at the time of his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClark's presentation is both visually stunning and typographically radical, mirroring the dark mystery of Mallarme's poem. 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