Léon Hennique Novel
Complete Novel 'A Character' & Rare French Literary Translations
Category: Mallarmé in Memory
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Stéphane Mallarmé From Henri de Régnier’s Figures et caractères (1901), translated here for the first time Henri de Régnier (1864-1936) The figures who were once familiar to our admiration die out, one by one. Their deaths sorrow us, each in proportion to the intellectual kinship we shared with those who are no longer among us. Losses…
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Albert Mockel (1866-1945) What follows is the first English translation of Albert Mockel’s Stéphane Mallarmé: Un Héros (Édition du Mercure de France, Paris, 1919). I The name Stéphane Mallarmé conjures up an artist and a poet, and a philosopher who, even in casual talk, was the most discerning of critics and aestheticians. Others will speak…
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Téodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917) The three pieces that follow are articles originally published by Téodor de Wyzewa in the press, later gathered together in Nos Maîtres: Études & Portraits Littéraires (Perrin et Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs, Paris, 1895), translated here for the first time. NOTES ON THE POETIC WORK OF M. MALLARMÉ by Téodor de Wyzewa (La…
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What follows are four articles by Léopold Dauphin on Stéphane Mallarmé, originally published in 1912, translated here for the first time. I Great and impeccable artificer of verse, Stéphane Mallarmé was a noble poet. His soul, mysterious, beautiful, and elevated, simply had the flaw of nurturing an artistic ideal even loftier than itself—so high that,…
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Portrait of Édouard Dujardin (1861-1949) by Félix Vallotton, 1898 . The following text presents selected chapters from Édouard Dujardin’s Mallarmé, par un des siens, published by Messein in Paris in 1952. To my knowledge, this book has not been translated into English. . MALLARMÉ . It is well known that Mallarmé was born in 1842…
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The following is the first-time English translation of “Quelques mots sur Mallarmé” by Émile Verhaeren, published in L’Art Moderne, No. 44, Sunday, October 30, 1887. An ex libris by F. Rops graces the entrance to the photo-lithographs of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Manuscript, a limited edition of forty copies published by the Revue Indépendante. This Manuscript is…
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