On Literary Evolution: An Interview with Stéphane Mallarmé
An 1891 interview with Mallarmé, translated from the French by poet Cid Corman.
Mallarmé, Our Contemporary
“If there has ever been a present to work in spite of, it is ours, but how different was that of the late nineteenth century? Or rather, is there a present? No such thing, thought Mallarmé — just a gap that the news tries to paper over.“