CONSTELLATE DISCOURSE AND CONTINGENCY: MALLARMÉ’S CONTEMPORARY PERMANENCE

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss Mallarmé’s poem A throw of dice, establishing some theoretical interfaces among Jakobson’s reading, Lacan’s psychoanalysis and some elements from the French discourse analysis. The poem, considered a milestone of modern poetry, has already engendered various discourses about itself, what allows us to consider it here a permanent invention, or yet, a throw of dice in eternal whirl. Attentive to the roaring of such discourses, and available for listening the theory that contributes to the poem’s critical analysis, the reading herein engaged bets on the profit that the Mallarmé’s poem study carries, for the perception of contemporary poetry, which inherited from him the double-sided lyrical coin: high revision of the possibilities of invention and very strong metalanguage.