A Tomb for Anatole: Poetry

by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Auster

Book Overview

"One of the most moving accounts of a man trying to come to grips with modern death that is to say, death without God, death without hope of salvation and it reveals the secret meaning of Mallarme's whole aesthetic: the elevation of art to the stature of religion." Paul Auster, from the Introduction The great French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), who changed the course of modern French literature (and influenced writers from James Joyce...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215938
• ISBN13: 9780811215930
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"