Divagations

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Divagations

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First edition title page
Author Stéphane Mallarmé
Country France
Language French
Publisher Bibliothéque-Charpentier
Publication date
1897
Pages 377

Divagations is an 1897 prose collection by the French writer Stéphane Mallarmé. The book introduces the idea of "critical poems", a mixture between critical essays and prose poems. The book is divided into two parts, first a series of prose poems, and then the actual "divagations" - "wanderings" or "ravings". [1]

Stéphane Mallarmé French Symbolist poet

Stéphane Mallarmé, whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1897.

19th-century French literature

19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire. The period covered spans the following political regimes: Napoleon Bonaparte's Consulate (1799–1804) and Empire (1804–1814), the Restoration under Louis XVIII and Charles X (1814–1830), the July Monarchy under Louis Philippe d'Orléans (1830–1848), the Second Republic (1848–1852), the Second Empire under Napoleon III (1852–1871), and the first decades of the Third Republic (1871–1940).

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Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

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References

  1. Kurhonen, Kuisma (2005). "A Flower? Stéphane Mallarmé and the Poetic Essay". In Forsdick, Charles; Stafford, Andy. The modern essay in French: movement, instability, performance. Modern French identities. Oxford: Peter Lang. p. 233. ISBN   3-03910-514-0.