Stephane Mallarme (Mallarm Stphane)

(1842-1898)
Born March 18, 1842 in Paris.
The first verses marked by the influence of Mallarme's poetry C. Baudelaire, with whom he had met a very early. Mature lyricism Mallarme includes eclogue Afternoon of a Faun (L'Aprs-midi d'un faune, . 1876), . collection of poems (Posies, . 1887), . Poetry and Prose (Vers et prose, . 1893), . Poems on the case (Pomes de circonstances, . 1920), . dramatic poem Herodias (Hrodiade, . 1867-1869), . poem in prose Igitur (Igitur, . 1825) and Luck never abolish the case of (Un coup de ds jamais n'abolira le hasard, . 1897),
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Mallarme led a modest life of a teacher of English, but the famous 'Tuesday' he gathered the most famous European writers and artists of the time.
He drove to the extreme views 'parnassians', arguing that 'poems are not made of ideas and the words'. In his writings repeats the idea that the poet - is a creator of myths, but the modern myth, who is also a myth of creation, must be abstract. The whiteness of a sheet of paper lying in front of a poet, is similar to the infinite void from which God creates the world.
Mallarme had a major impact on the poetry of 20 in. - Not only their creativity, small in volume and uneven, but theoretical considerations, the most integrity and force of his personality. Mallarmц? died in Valvene, near Fontainebleau, September 9, 1898.