Mallarmé
Americannoun
noun
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The symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who would later inspire Man Ray’s Dadaist photographs and Claude Debussy’s atonal compositions, wrote in 1871 that it was “the most beautiful crockery I have ever known.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
Mallarmé observed that poetry is written not with ideas but with words; and the same is true with dance: it’s made in not with ideas but with movement.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2018
“Encrypted” by Alex Ross, New Yorker More than a century after his death, the inscrutable French poet Stéphane Mallarmé remains an enigma, his work a puzzle that only grows more vexing in translation.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2016
Derrida’s 1972 book “Dissemination” makes almost perfect sense if you come to it after an immersion in Mallarmé.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016
Nothing remains of Mallarmé excepting a few cunningly wrought verses, inferior to the clearer and more profound poems of his great master, Baudelaire.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
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