In October 1879, Mallarme's eight year-old son Anatole died after months of illness. Malarme wrote 210 sheets of pencilled notes towards a poem about this death, and they did not appear in his lifetime. When first published in 1961, they revealed an unknown side of Mallarme. "For Anatole's Tomb" is among the most ambitious works Mallarm attempted, and for all its fragmentation remains a complete and moving reading experience. The en-face translation, based on a recent text established in the Pl iade Mallarm , is preceded by a substantial introduction.