Hans Rudolf Zeller’s “Mallarmé and Serialist Thought” Reconsidered. How Mallarmé Influenced the Serialist Thought? And Did He Influence It at All?
Keywords:
literature and music, French poetry, Mallarmé, Stéphane, Le Livre, Zeller, Hans Rudolf, Barthes, Roland, Boulez, Pierre, serialism, open form, work-in-progressAbstract
Hans Rudolf Zeller attempts to find the sources of the serialism in Mallarmé’s Le Livre, especially in connection with the Third Piano Sonata by Boulez. Mallarmé’s idea, however, also left the traces in some of Boulez’s theoretical concepts concerning the author’s anonymity and withdrawal of all auctorial traces from the work/composition.References
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