Roger PearsonRoger Pearson is Professor of French at the University of Oxford. His publications include Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art (1996) and Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (2004), of which the latte won the R. H. Gapper Prize by the Society for French Studies. His Voltaire Almighty (2005) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. Read More Read Less