Mallarmé, or the Poet of Nothingness
1986
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This is the first translation of a major text by Sartre on one of the greatest modern French poets, Stéphane Mallarmé, whom Sartre hailed as a "hero, prophet, wizard, and tragedian." Written in 1953, Sartre's text provides not only an invigorating and convincing intrepretation of Mallarmé, but also an original overview of French literature in the nineteenth century. Ernest Sturm is Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Author · 83 books
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age." In the years around the time of his death, however, existentialism declined in French philosophy and was overtaken by structuralism, represented by Levi-Strauss and, one of Sartre's detractors, Michel Foucault.
