Édouard Manet, Stéphane Mallarmé and Edgar Allan Poe - Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

in art •  7 years ago 

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In 1870, Stéphane Mallarmé translated Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem ''The Raven'' to french. Édouard Manet illustrated the book and he made 4 lithographs for this poem.

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The illustrations of Manet gives us the young Mallarmé in Poe's world. But unfortunately The New York Public Library tells us “the publication was not a commercial success.”

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They published 240 books and each of them sold for 25 Francs.

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If you want to listen ''The Raven'' with the voice of Christopher Lee/Saruman here you go:

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