Work · Jean-Paul Sartre
Mallarmé: Lucidity and Its Shadow
The study connects Mallarmé's poetry with a crisis of belief, language and the poet's social position.
Understanding the text
Publication of earlier work partly left unpublished, not evidence of a new theoretical conversion in 1979.
Key points
- 01
Language
Poetry asks how words reveal what they seem to withdraw.
- 02
Situation
The poet's trajectory encounters contradictions of period and class.
- 03
Lucidity
Undoing inherited guarantees does not automatically solve creation's problem.
How to read it
Read the cited poems and identify the studies' original composition dates.
Editions & sources
Summaries and key points are original editorial interpretations. They accompany reading the work and do not replace an edition of the text. Editorial method ↗