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Аннотация The unfamiliar to Russian reader “attempt of a dramatical piece” presents Debussy in the new quality of a dramatist. Being written in 1898-1900 and dedicated to unusual for Debussy social theme — relationaships of the artist and the public, the text of 25 pages not only anticipates Debussy as a critic, but also gives a key to art images he was attracted to in that time. The main figure of the piece — an artist Maltravers — is characterized through some autobiographical features, an English critic Redburn is portrayed en homage a Whistler. Drawing in his pamphlet Utopian artistic society, Debussy pays a contribution to the polemic “what is the art” initialized by Whistler and Mallarmet