This essay examines the critical character of FriedrichSchlegel?s Romantic irony, following its considerations and appropriationsby Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom and Paul deMan. Likewise, it shows a parallelism of this critical attitude ofirony with three Romantic literary figures: the aesthete, the dandyand the flâneur. These figures, joined by a prophetic faith inart, make of irony a profession which moves between creationand destruction. Appropriation in the poststructuralist contextallows us to perceive irony in such a radical incomprehension,developing an aesthetic pattern that operates between creationand annihilation.