« Ainsi qu’un rire enseveli ». L’esthétique de la litote dans « Autre éventail » de Stéphane Mallarmé et sa mise en musique par Claude Debussy

Through an analysis of the poem “Autre éventail” and Debussy’s musical interpretation of it, this article discusses Mallarmé’s views on music and the musical adaptation of his poetry. If the poem of 1884 already represents a particularly successful sort of “musicalization”, Debussy’s melody respects Mallarmé’s views through its precision, subtlety and fragmentation of discourse.