tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588626958366619272.post1486742803077822940..comments2024-03-27T08:48:59.163-04:00Comments on Astarian Scriptures: Homeless WarriorSurazeushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03649381910384416079noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588626958366619272.post-10733366993336851232016-04-07T22:21:52.295-04:002016-04-07T22:21:52.295-04:00"At the same time, Mallarmé saw Wagner as a t..."At the same time, Mallarmé saw Wagner as a threat and a challenge. The all-devouring composer was usurping the poet’s function as the mouthpiece of humanity’s primal myths. And Wagner’s myths were too limiting, too bounded by nationhood. Poets, Mallarmé wrote, must “take back what is ours.” They must sing of heroes with no name—“the Figure that is None” (“la Figure que Nul n’est”). This declaration is close to the ground zero of modernist abstraction."Surazeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649381910384416079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588626958366619272.post-37258482757759793652016-04-07T22:16:39.270-04:002016-04-07T22:16:39.270-04:00http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/steph...http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/stephane-mallarme-prophet-of-modernismSurazeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649381910384416079noreply@blogger.com