Review of “Toast funèbre” (1873)

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Stéphane Mallarmé (writer).

Read in 2022.

Read in its original language and in Swedish-language prose translation.

A tribute to Théophile Gautier.

An early example of what would become Mallarmé’s hermetism: Carefully composed and deliberately cryptic.

References here: Modern utländsk lyrik (1975/1985).

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