> Wow! What a list.. what a list.. and Mallarme! He's mentioned so
> much amongst the surrealists, yet I've never obtained any examples
> of his writings.. if there ever was a futurist, it was the surrealists!
> Could
> you perhaps post an example some time? Also, Trakl and Zweig
> don't ring any bells. How about a reference to them?
You can find a lot of Mallarme in the library - he wasn't a surrealist,
by the way, any more than Isidore Ducasse (Lautreamont) was, no matter
what their claims. And the futurists were of course a totally different
group; if anything, I find the surrealists somewhat mediaeval in their
insistence on the prominence of the symbolic, exquisite corpses or not.
Look at Dali's monarchism, the un/exalted position of women under erasure
in all the texts - Dali's fascination with Hitler for that matter...
As far as George Trakl and Stefan Zweig, they were both German poets who
wrote around the turn of the century (20th) and were an influence, like
Holderlin, on Heidegger. You can also find their works in the library or
at a bookstore.
Alan
liked the poem except for the word "immortalize" (not that it matters,
either my liking or the word or immortality) in the last line--