Mallarmé, a poetics of the gift (about ‘Loisirs de la poste' and autres 'Récréations Postales’)

Abstract

The formal play of the addressed court highlights some fundamental questions of Mallarmé’s poetics (in miniature and ironically: the form maintained as an absolute even in the small-scale realization of the small fetish-books or object poems; an erotica of distance, a thought of the literary community (as the epistolary connection manifests) that is known to be posted in the solitude of writing.

Keywords

• quatrain-adresse
• communauté littéraire
• épistolographie.