Tomb for Anatole Pa

by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Auster

Book Overview

The great French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), who changed the course of modern French literature (and influenced writers from James Joyce to T.S. Eliot to Wallace Stevens), suffered many tragedies. His mother died when he was just five years old, but in 1879 the crucelest blow of all struck when his beloved son Anatole died at the age of eight. A Tomb for Anatole presents the 202 fragments of Mallarme's projected long poem in four...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865471355
• ISBN13: 9780865471351
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.