Blanchot mediador de Mallarmé : uma leitura de Igitur

Abstract

Stéphane Mallarmé, a French poet of the 19th century, probed the poetic word, deeply engaging in a reflection that broke with traditional philosophies and resulted in a revolutionary aesthetic that influenced artists, theorists and thinkers of the time. Mallarmé, although adept at the occult sciences disseminated in his contemporary elite circle, adapted them to his “imaginary”, not in order to deform them, but to allow a marriage between his artistic and mystical conceptions. Igitur or the Madness of Elbehnon, an unfinished text, foreshadowing the poem Un Coup de Des Jamais N'abolira le Hasard (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance), manifests itself as an essential moment in which the author's radical experience with literature transits from “na accomplished work” to “a work as an eternal origin of itself”, hostage of its incompleteness, and remains as a record of what Le Livre (“Absolute Book”) intended to be. In addition, elements in dialogue with Kabbalistic science are found in its texture. The legacy of the French poet, considered, by historians and literary critics, “the most radical of the Symbolists”, in particular, Igitur or the Madness of Elbehnon, is analyzed here through the theoretical scope of Maurice Blanchot, one of the most important literary critics of the modernity