# Divagations

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1897 prose collection by Stéphane Mallarmé

Divagations First edition title page Author Stéphane Mallarmé Language French Publisher Bibliothéque-Charpentier Publication date 1897 Publication place France Pages 377

***Divagations*** is an 1897 prose collection by the French writer [Stéphane Mallarmé](/source/St%C3%A9phane_Mallarm%C3%A9). The book introduces the idea of "critical poems", a mixture between critical essays and prose poems. The book is divided into two parts, first a series of prose poems, and then the actual "divagations" – "wanderings" or "ravings".[1]

## Contents

- "Anecdotes or Poems"

- "Volumes on My Divan"

- "Capsule Sketches and Full-Length Portraits"

- "Richard Wagner"

- "Scribbled at the Theater"

- "Crisis of Verse"

- "About the Book"

- "The Mystery in Letters"

- "Services"

- "Important Miscellaneous News Briefs"

## See also

- [1897 in literature](/source/1897_in_literature)

- [19th-century French literature](/source/19th-century_French_literature)

- [Symbolism (arts)](/source/Symbolism_(arts))

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Kurhonen, Kuisma (2005). ["A Flower? Stéphane Mallarmé and the Poetic Essay"](https://books.google.com/books?id=VyZUSYp7l_sC&pg=PA233). In Forsdick, Charles; Stafford, Andy (eds.). *The modern essay in French: movement, instability, performance*. Modern French identities. [Oxford](/source/Oxford): [Peter Lang](/source/Peter_Lang_(publishing_company)). p. 233. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-03910-514-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-03910-514-0).

French [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) has original text related to this article:

**[Divagations](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:Divagations)**

v t e Works by Stéphane Mallarmé L'après-midi d'un faune Poésies Divagations Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard For Anatole's Tomb

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