# Stéphane Mallarmé — What Is Art? character guide

> Stéphane Mallarmé in What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mallarmé

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

French Symbolist poet criticized for obscurity.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_art_se/chapters/i)

Author of the quoted prose poem 'Divagations' and 'The Future Phenomenon'.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_art_se/chapters/endnotes)

Quoted on the theory of suggestion and enigma in poetry.

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