In this paper, I study Stéphane Mallarmé s oeuvre and reception through the lens of Antoine Berman s theory; especially his idea of retranslation. There are indeed interesting connections between Berman s La retraduction comme espace de la traduction and late-20th Century European Mallarmé Studies. They both base their conceptions of Metacritic and Historicity on German romantic ideas, though rather diverging when it comes to transla-tion. In fact, translation and translation approaches are remarkably absent from European Mallarmé Studies. Yet, translation is an important and bold means for contributing with literary research, as the context of Mallarmé re-translation in 1980s and 1990s Brazil proves. By studying Mallarmé s poetry and reception under Berman s light, I explore here an example of just how critically far can Translation go - sometimes even farther than Literary Stud-ies themselves - in the effort of perpetuating consecrated oeuvres.