Prose pour des Esseintes
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
Stéphane Mallarmé was so pleased with the publicity his verse had received from A Rebours that he dedicated one of his most famous (and most obscure) poems, Prose pour des Esseintes to its hero, the aesthete des Esseintes.
[edit] Prose pour des EsseintesHyperbole! de ma mémoire
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