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Mallarmé, Stephane --- Criticism and interpretation

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"Les aventures qui figurent dans ce livre ont été écrites comme une histoire de Paris racontée par de nombreuses voix différentes. Elles débutent à l'aube de la Révolution française et s'achèvent à l'époque actuelle, s'autorisant parfois quelques incursions dans le passé médiéval et préhistorique. Par cette entreprise, je me proposais de composer une mini Comédie humaine de Paris, dans laquelle l'histoire de la ville serait éclairée par l'expérience vécue de ses habitants. Rien n'a été artificiellement ajouté et personne, mis à part le baron Haussmann, Adolf Hitler et quelques présidents de la République, ne disserte sur l'évolution du système d'égouts ou du réseau de transports." Au lecteur, amoureux de Paris ou curieux d'Histoire, de se délecter de ce merveilleux livre, pour y rencontrer une foule de personnages inconnus ou illustres : le tout jeune lieutenant Buonaparte, en goguette au Palais- Royal; l'architecte Guillaumot, l'homme qui sauva Paris, dont aucune rue de la capitale ne porte le nom aujourd'hui; Marie- Antoinette, reine en détresse, perdue un certain jour de 1791 aux abords du palais des Tuileries; le grand Vidocq, qui pouvait se changer à loisir en botte de foin; mais aussi Proust, Charles de Gaulle, Juliette Gréco, et tant d'autres...

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No-one knows a city like the people who live there - so who is better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Parisians introduces us to some of those inhabitants: we meet spies, soldiers, scientists and alchemists; police commissioners, photographers and philosophers; adulterers, murderers, prisoners and prostitutes. A book unlike any other, it is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself.

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Almost a century after the death of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, readers still puzzle over his writings, still seek to understand his seemingly impenetrable philosophy. In this highly original book, Graham Robb reveals conclusive answers to the mysteries of Mallarmé. Robb's discovery of a "key" to Mallarmé's poetry is an exciting achievement that entirely redefines Mallarmé studies, illuminates large areas of French poetry, both before and after Mallarmé, and opens the way for new interpretations of some of the most complicated poems ever written.As Robb scrutinized the work of Mallarmé, he discovered that the poet repeatedly used the hundred or so words in the French language that have no rhyme. This discovery, as Robb tells it, "proved to be the first step of a staircase leading to a tomb which had remained sealed since Mallarmé built it."It revealed the only perspective from which his poems "made sense"—as allegorical tales of their own creation. The "theme" of the poem turns out to be just one surface of a brilliantly coordinated whole.In the first part of the book, Robb defines and explores the development of Mallarmé's approach; in the second he applies the method to specific poems; in the conclusion he suggests ways in which the key might be applied to other poems and poets; and in the epilogue he offers a guided tour through Mallarmé's famously uninterpretable shipwreck poem, Un coup de dés. The book reveals how Mallarmé's self-reflecting, self-destructive work poses, and perhaps answers, the central questions of twentieth-century criticism.

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