From Paul Val ry to Julia Kristeva, the work of St phane Mallarm has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century French culture. His texts have served as emblem and inspiration for successive generations of cultural theorists and practitioners.
In Meetings with Mallarm , top scholars from the UK and USA have been specially commissioned to explore the significance of Mallarm 's influence on some of the major players in French psychoanalysis, music, poetry, philosophy and literary theory. By re-staging these textual encounters, the book demonstrates how the ghostly presence of St phane Mallarm profoundly informed the projects of such key figures as Val ry, Lacan, Sartre, Derrida, Boulez, de Man, Bonnefoy, Kristeva, Blanchot and the Oulipo group. All quotations are translated.