Mallarmé’s symbolist essays appeared alongside anarchist and Marxist texts in La Revue Blanche.

Evidence

To gauge the import of Mallarmé’s articles in La Revue Blanche, it is necessary to remember their context. They appeared in the same issues of the journal, not just with drawings by Toulouse, Vallotton or Bonnard, but side by side with laudatory articles on Bakunin, Herzen, Proudhon and Marx — a celebratory review by Charles Andler on the publication of the Third Volume of Capital; not to speak of an eleven-part serialization of the memoirs of the enragé General Rossignol, Hébertiste commander in the suppression of the Vendée, honoured with a heroic representation by Vuillard. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 297

Categorization

• CANDY: The picture of Mallarmé’s rarefied essays running beside an eleven-part serial of a Vendée-suppression general’s memoirs is a fun, surprising juxtaposition.
• XREF: Provides concrete evidence for the aesthetics-politics entanglement discussed throughout the chapter’s reading of Jameson.