Description

FIRST EDITION of this collection of poetic texts and prose reflections which introduces for the first time the notion of a "prose".poetic-critical essay.
Mention of second mile.

SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CONSIGNMENT to the poet Emmanuel Signoret:

"to Emmanuel Signoret
fervently
Stéphane Mallarmé"

After studying in Aix-en-Provence, Emmanuel Signoret (1872-1900) went into exile in Paris and worked in several literary circles and reviews. However, his very independent character led him to found his own magazine in 1890,  The Holy Grail. Signoret's admiration for Mallarmé is tinged with insolence, as shown in the article he published after the publication of Verse and Prose:
"His work is the incomparable chapel of fire where the corpses of Ancient Poetry and the Torn Alexandrian lie on exceptional flowers. I respect Mr. Mallarmé, as I respect the high ruins and the flowery tombs."
In 1896, Signoret contracted tuberculosis and returned to Provence where he published a few years later, The Suffering of the Waters, crowned by the French Academy in 1899. Particularly touched by the death of the author of the Dice rollIn the same year, he published a thin booklet entitled The Tomb of Stéphane Mallarmé. A sort of cursed poet, Signoret disappears the following year, in the most complete destitution, at only 28 years old.

Charming copy bound at the time.