Abstract

The article discusses selected literary and artistic discoveries of Mallarmé’s aesthetics from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century. Mallarmé, whom Verlaine included in the circle of “poètes maudit” and who was considered a master of decadence thanks to Huysmans’s novel Against Nature, was announced a surrealist in Surrealism Manifesto by André Breton and his name appeared in the writing of Valéry and other 20th-century poets and writers. The Cubists were delighted with “spatialization” of poetry in A Roll of the Dice. In addition, constant discovering of the poet by the composers – from Debussy and Ravel, through Boulez, to the contemporary artists such as Marc-André Dalbavie or Jean-Luc Hervé cannot be overlooked.