Divagations

Stéphane Mallarmé

Translated by Barbara Johnson

    Autobiography

    Preface

    Anecdotes or Poems

    The Phenomenon of the Future

    Autumn Lament

    Winter Shudder

    The Demon of Analogy

    Poor Pale Child

    The Pipe

    An Interrupted Performance

    Reminiscence

    The Fairground Declaration

    The White Waterlily

    A Man of the Cloth

    Glory

    Conflict

    Volumes on My Divan

    Long Ago, in the Margins of a Copy of Baudelaire

    Capsule Sketches and Full-Length Portraits

    Piece: A Brief Summary of Vathek

    Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

    Verlaine

    Arthur Rimbaud

    Laurent Tailhade

    Beckford

    Tennyson Viewed from Here

    Théodore de Banville

    Edgar Poe

    Whistler

    Edouard Manet

    Berthe Morisot

    Richard Wagner

    Richard Wagner: The Reverie of a French Poet

    Scribbled at the Theater

    Scribbled at the Theater

    Hamlet

    Ballets

    Another Study of Dance: The Fundamentals of Ballet

    "The Only One Would Have To Be as Fluid as the Sorcerer"

    Mimesis

    Of Genre and the Moderns

    Parenthesis

    Stages and Pages

    Solemnity

    Music and Letters

    Music and Letters

    Crisis of Verse

    Crisis of Verse

    About the Book

    Restricted Action

    Displays

    The Book as Spiritual Instrument

    The Mystery in Letters

    Services

    Sacred Pleasure

    Catholicism

    The Same

    Important Miscellaneous News Briefs

    Gold

    Accusation

    Cloisters

    Magic

    Bucolic

    Solitude

    Confrontation

    The Court

    Safeguard

    Mallarmé's Bibliography

    Translator's Note

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Barbara Johnson taught in the departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and was the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. She is the author of The Critical Difference, A World of Difference, and The Wake of Deconstruction.