{"product_id":"divagations-2","title":"Divagations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book just the way I don't like them,\" the father of French Symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé, informs the reader in his preface to \u003ci\u003eDivagations\u003c\/i\u003e: \"scattered and with no architecture.\" On the heels of this caveat, Mallarmé's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is \u003ci\u003eDivagations\u003c\/i\u003e has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. If Mallarmé captured the tone and very feel of fin-de-siècle Paris, he went on to captivate the minds of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--from Valéry and Eliot to Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This was the only book of prose he published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Barbara Johnson, is now available for the first time in English as Mallarmé arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a notoriously difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether contemplating the poetry of Tennyson, the possibilities of language, a masturbating priest, or the transporting power of dance, Mallarmé remains a fascinating companion--charming, opinionated, and pedantic by turns. As an expression of the Symbolist movement and as a contribution to literary studies, \u003ci\u003eDivagations\u003c\/i\u003e is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220437553496,"sku":"9780674032408","price":42.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674032408.jpg?v=1770957940","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/divagations-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}