Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth- century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties until the time of his death, Mallarm prod...more
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest ...more