Literary Significance and Criticism
Stéphane Mallarmé referred to his Penses-tu réussir! as a modern version of Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education.
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“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
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“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
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