Abstract
In order to respond to Kyoo Lee's theses on reading, this essay focuses on obscurity and difficulty, terms often associated with modernism. Moving from a controversy opposing Mallarmé and Proust in the last decade of the 19th century to Lacan's use of a Mallarmean language when he describes how symptoms can be read, that is not by thinking naïvely that we are "poets" but by understanding that we are unconsciously scripted "poems," the essay posits a mediation provided by Ezra Pound when he invents both Comparative Literature and Translation Studies.
First Page
139
Last Page
145
Recommended Citation
Jean-Michel, Rabaté. 2019. "Can "Contemporaries" Know How to Read?." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (4): pp.139-145. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss4/5
