This volume contains never-before translated prose selections by the father of the Symbolist movement, one of the most influential cultural figures of 19th-century France. Mallarm�’s letters to leading French intellectuals and artists of the time appear with his pieces on language and aesthetics, as he considers the state of contemporary French literature. There are also lighter reflections on life, fashion, and the performing arts (some of Mallarm�’s fascinating essays on the ballet are included here). A number of sections are devoted to Mallarm�’s great magazine of wit and opinion, La Derni�re Mode, or The Latest Fashion, every page of which he wrote himself under various pseudonyms of both genders. As the translator and editor of this volume Mary Ann Caws puts it: “It is Mallarm� as inventor whom this volume celebrates.” Mallarm�’s portraits of poets and artists (including Tennyson, Poe, and Manet) also contribute to this long-awaited volume, a collection of prose highlighting Mallarm�’s multiplicity of voices and variety of forms.

About the Authors

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, and Emerita and Resident Professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has translated and written on many surrealist writers including Andr� Breton, Ren� Char, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dal�, and Pablo Picasso.

Award-winning translator, scholar, and essayist Richard Sieburth has translated books by Henri Michaux, Friedrich H�lderlin, Louise Lab�, G�rard de Nerval, and Nostradamus.

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