[A Sip of Books] Henri Matisse, Master of 20th Century Art, 'The Afternoon of a Faun'

Some sentences encapsulate the entire content of the book itself, while others instantly reach the reader's heart, creating a point of contact with the book. We introduce such meaningful sentences excerpted from the book. - Editor's note

This is an illustrated book directly edited and produced by Henri Matisse, a master of 20th-century art. It contains 64 poems by Mallarm? carefully selected by the author himself, along with 29 etchings specially created for this book. It includes the most poems among Mallarm?'s collections published in Korea, featuring representative works such as "The Afternoon of a Faun," "H?rodiade," "Greetings," and "Sea Breeze."

There is nothing, this foam, pure poetry / Only pointing to the wine glass / And so, far away, several groups of sirens / Capsize into the water and disappear // We sail, oh my colorful friends, I am already at the stern / You are at the splendid bow cutting through lightning and freezing waves

Ah, the body is sad! And I have read all the books. / Let's run away! Let's run away over there! The birds / Seem intoxicated by unknown foam and the sky! / Nothing, not even the old garden in sight / Can hold this heart soaking in seawater

The women you brag about / Might be shaped by your tremendous lust! / Oh Faun, hallucinations spring like tear-filled springs / From the blue and cold eyes of the most chaste woman, / Meanwhile, another woman sighing deeply / Is like a warm breeze brushing your chest hair, saying it is contrasting?

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