A gorgeous facsimile of the epochal collaboration between Mallarm and Manet that inspired Nijinsky's most famous dance The second published collaboration between St phane Mallarm and douard Manet (after Mallarm 's translation of Poe's The Raven), L'apr s-midi d'un faune is one of the poet's best-known works.
It provided the basis for Debussy's Pr lude l'apr s-midi d'un faune (1894), which in turn inspired Nijinsky's ballet L'apr s-midi d'un faune.