Revista Criação & Crítica (Apr 2009)

Salomé, a musa do fim-do-século

  • Álvaro Cardoso Gomes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i2p66-72
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 66 – 72

Abstract

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This article on Mallarmé’s poem “Salomé” analyses the character as a fin de siècle topusbecause she destroys males with her cold eroticism. In this sense, Salomé is seen more as a symbol, as a representation of a period, rather than as an historical or mythical figure

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