Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1842-03-18
Deathday: 1898-09-09 (56 years old)

Biography

Stéphane Mallarmé (UK: MAL-ar-may, US: mal-ar-MAY; French: [stefan malaʁme] ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Mallarmé was born in Paris. He was a boarder at the Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy between 6 or 9 October 1852 and March 1855. He worked as an English teacher and spent much of his life in relative poverty but was famed for his salons, occasional gatherings of intellectuals at his house on the rue de Rome for discussions of poetry, art and philosophy. The group became known as les Mardistes, because they met on Tuesdays (in French, mardi), and through it Mallarmé exerted considerable influence on the work of a generation of writers. For many years, those sessions, where Mallarmé held court as judge, jester, and king, were considered the heart of Paris intellectual life. Regular visitors included W.B. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Stefan George, Paul Verlaine, and many others.

Along with other members of La Revue Blanche such as Jules Renard, Julien Benda and Ioannis Psycharis, Mallarmé was a Dreyfusard.

On 10 August 1863, he married Maria Christina Gerhard. They had two children, Geneviève in 1864 and Anatole in 1871. Anatole died in 1879. Mallarmé died in Valvins (present-day Vulaines-sur-Seine), near Fontainebleau, on September 9, 1898.

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1842-03-18

Deathday
1898-09-09 (56 years old)

Birth Name
Étienne Mallarmé

Birth Place
Paris, France

Children
Geneviève Mallarmé-Bonniot, Anatole Mallarmé

Citizenships
France

Awards
Taylorian Lecture

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