Mallarmé médiateur Du moi au soi

The question of the duality of the self constitutes a veritable commonplace in the second half of the nineteenth century. As Proust will do later, Mallarmé isolates the creator self from the socially determined self, and places the current “money” of daily life in opposition to poetic speech. But this act of opposition also pertains to other areas of separation: between humanisation and dehumanisation; self and other; solitude and crowd; day and night.