Divagations

'This is a book just the way I don't like them', the father of French Symbolism, Stephane Mallarme, informs the reader in his preface to "Divagations": 'scattered and with no architecture'. On the heels of this caveat, Mallarme's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumb [...]
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'This is a book just the way I don't like them', the father of French Symbolism, Stephane Mallarme, informs the reader in his preface to "Divagations": 'scattered and with no architecture'. On the heels of this caveat, Mallarme's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth - and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most.