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Mallarmé was a French Symbolist poet and essayist, and he was a representative figure of early Symbolist poetry along with Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Mallarmé made an indelible contribution to the development of French poetry and literature. Mallarmé is very difficult to understand. These two reasons are enough to explain why the master of Symbolism, Mallarmé, is still being continuously and patiently interpreted by scholars in France and around the world even after the death of symbolist literature and art for so long. Sartre conducted research on Mallarmé and Symbolist poetry. Sartre raised a universal question through his critical biography of Mallarmé: Does the literature of the death of God (Nietzsche's language) still exist? Mallarmé's tragedy lies in his determination to become a "capital man", to engage in "capital poetry" at all costs, and then turn the great failure of poetry into a great failure of poetry.

This is a novel in which the author mainly narrates his childhood life. It is also a self-analysis and self-criticism of the author. Through these seemingly ordinary and trivial stories, we can see the germ of the author's existential thought and the starting point of his theory. In short, this is not only an interesting literary work that can provide people with beautiful enjoyment, but also an indispensable first-hand information for understanding Sartre.