'This is a book just the way I don't like them', the father of French Symbolism, Stephane Mallarme, informs the reader in his preface to "Divagations": 'scattered and with no architecture'. On the heels of this caveat, Mallarme's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth - and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most.
Author Biography
Barbara Johnson taught in the departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and was the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. She is the author of The Critical Difference, A World of Difference, and The Wake of Deconstruction.
