Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903–1985), a French philosopher and musicologist, was a major interpreter of Gabriel Fauré's music, particularly in his books Gabriel Fauré et ses mélodies (1938) and Fauré et l'inexprimable. He famously characterized Fauré's style as the "ineffable" or "almost-nothing" (presque-rien), emphasizing its subtle charm, nostalgia, and poetic evasion of dramatic, forced expression.