Cinq minutes de silence en hommage à Mallarmé Jardin botanique de Madrid (14 octobre 1923)

Reaction to Mallarmé came later in Spain and Latin America than in other countries. This first manifested itself after the first World War when on 14 October 1923 several Spanish and Latin American writers assembled in the Botanical Gardens in Madrid to observe five minutes silence dedicated to the memory of the poet. Their accounts of this event, subsequently published in La Revista de Occidente, are reproduced in this article.