{"product_id":"divagations","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 Divagations: \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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, Divagations is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45170288754867,"sku":"9780674032408","price":2879.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/31X-zkLFJRL.jpg?v=1765278345","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/divagations","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}