A Tomb for Anatole

An immensely moving poetic work addressing inconsolable sorrow: a father's pain over the death of his child. Bilingual."One of the most moving accounts of a man trying to come to grips with modern death that is to say, death without God, death without hope of salvation and it reveals the secret meaning of Mallarme's whole aesthetic: the elevation of art to the stature of religion." Paul Auster, from the Introduction The great French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), who changed the c…