3 mai 2023
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Giorgia Testa, « Tu sais / sais-tu...: formes d’ambiguïté interlocutoire chez Mallarmé », Ledizioni, ID : 10670/1.brpizb
The aim of this contribution is to shed light on the complexity of the poet-reader relationship in Mallarmé’s oeuvre. Starting from an alleged Mallarméan “obscurity”, whose truths and false myths will be discussed briefly, I intend to verify Pascal Durand’s following hypothesis: the reader should be able to decipher Mallarmé’s poetics more easily in the cases of poems considered “difficult”, while the “simpler” poems allegedly offer a more radical closure to dialogue. By comparing some of the direct appeals in Prose (pour des Esseintes) and in L’Après-midi d’un Faune, I intend to show how Mallarmé traces a communicative path towards an ideal reader in the first poem, traditionally considered complex and impenetrable, whereas the appeals in L’Après-midi, apparently easier to read, are addressed to the poetic ego only.