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For Anatole's Tomb

For Anatole's Tomb( )
Author: Mallarmé, Stéphane
Translator: McGuinness, Patrick
ISBN:978-1-85754-636-1
Publication Date:Jun 2003
Publisher:Carcanet Press, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.95
Book Description:

In October 1879, Mallarme's eight year-old son Anatole died after months of illness. Malarme wrote 210 sheets of pencilled notes towards a poem about this death, and they did not appear in his lifetime. When first published in 1961, they revealed an unknown side of Mallarme.

Book Details
Pages:97
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 21.59 x 1.27 cm
Book Weight:0.177 Kilograms
Author Biography
Mallarmé, Stéphane (Author)
Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 - 1898 French poet Stéphane Mallarmé was born in Paris. His father and grandfather expected him to follow in the family tradition of French civil service but he didn't do well in school. Mallarmé began writing at a young age under the influence of Charles Baudelaire. After Mallarmé left school, he went to England and while there he got married. He was a schoolteacher from 1864 until his retirement in 1893.

His first poems started appearing in magazines during the 1860's. He wrote his first important poem "L'Azur" and it was published when he was twenty-four years old. His most famous work is "L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune" (1865), and was inspired by Debussy's tone poem of the same name (1894) and illustrated by the famous painter Manet. Some of his other notable works are "Herodiade" (1896), and "Toast Funebre," which was written in memory of the author Theopile Gautier.

Mallarmé spent his life putting his literary theories into practice by writing his Grand oeuvre (Great Work). On September 9, 1898, Mallarme died without completing this work. His experimental poem "Un Coup De Des" was published posthumously in 1914.

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