Léon Hennique Novel
Complete Novel 'A Character' & Rare French Literary Translations
Category: Mallarmé in Memory
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Henri de Régnier (c. 1908) Collectible portrait card, Félix Potin series · Private collection Stéphane Mallarmé From Henri de Régnier’s Figures et caractères (1901), translated here for the first time 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…
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Albert Mockel (1866-1945) photograph by Benjamin Couprie c. 1900 Stéphane Mallarmé, A Hero 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…
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Téodor de Wyzewa (1862-1917) From: Jean Cassou, Encyclopédie du symbolisme 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.…
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Four Articles on Stéphane Mallarmé (1912) 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…
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Portrait of Édouard Dujardin (1861-1949) by Félix Vallotton, 1898 . Mallarmé by One of His Own 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. . It is well known that Mallarmé…
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A few words on Mallarmé 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…