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Frequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction
The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." A colossal influence on literature from Huysmans to Ashbery, art from Manet to Broodthaers, music from Debussy to Boulez and philosophy from Blanchot to Rancière, Mallarmé spent more than 30 years on a project he called Le Livre. This legendary, unfinished project is now translated into English for the first time.
The Book was Mallarmé's total artwork, a book to encompass all books. His collected drafts and notes toward it, published only posthumously in French in 1957, are alternately mystical, lyrical and gloriously banal; for example, many concern the dimensions, page count and cost of printing this ideal book. Resembling sheet music, the lines are laid out like a musical score, with abundant expanses of blank space between them. Frequently quoted, sometimes excerpted, but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction, the scaffolding of a cosmic architecture intended to reveal "all existing relations between everything."
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What a feast of Mallarmé we are treated to, with really persuasive translations of two major and important texts of this poet, who is without any doubt, quite certainly, the most important carryover from the poetry of the nineteenth century to our present and our future, in poetry and in life.--Mary Ann Caws "Brooklyn Rail "
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Cambridge, Mass: Exact Change, 2018. Softcover bound in stiff, glossy wrappers. Translated with an introduction by Sylvia Gorelick. xvi, 228 pages. This title's first translation into English (as well as first adaptation from the handwritten original into a typographic form.) Clean and bright. Near Fine with no marks or flaws. The wrappers are faintly rubbed. Presumed First edition (not stated otherwise.). Seller Inventory # MALL_110725