Divagations

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| name = Divagations

| image = Mallarmé - Divagations.djvu{{!}}page=5

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| caption = First edition title page

| author = Stéphane Mallarmé

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| country = France

| language = French

| publisher = Bibliothéque-Charpentier

| pub_date = 1897

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| pages = 377

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Divagations is an 1897 prose collection by the French writer Stéphane Mallarmé. The book introduces the idea of "critical poems", a mixture between critical essays and prose poems. The book is divided into two parts, first a series of prose poems, and then the actual "divagations" – "wanderings" or "ravings".{{Cite book|last=Kurhonen|first=Kuisma|editor1-last=Forsdick|editor1-first=Charles|editor2-last=Stafford|editor2-first=Andy|year=2005|title=The modern essay in French: movement, instability, performance|chapter=A Flower? Stéphane Mallarmé and the Poetic Essay|series=Modern French identities|publisher=Peter Lang|location=Oxford|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VyZUSYp7l_sC&pg=PA233|page=233|isbn=3-03910-514-0}}

Contents

  • "Anecdotes or Poems"
  • "Volumes on My Divan"
  • "Capsule Sketches and Full-Length Portraits"
  • "Richard Wagner"
  • "Scribbled at the Theater"
  • "Crisis of Verse"
  • "About the Book"
  • "The Mystery in Letters"
  • "Services"
  • "Important Miscellaneous News Briefs"

See also

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