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One Toss of the Dice - The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern (Hardcover)
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One Toss of the Dice - The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern (Hardcover)
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The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck
published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being
read up and down, backwards and forwards, even sideways, launched
modernism. Stephane Mallarme's "One Toss of the Dice" has for over
a century tantalised everyone from physicists to composers to
graphic artists. R. Howard Bloch decodes the poem still considered
among the most enigmatic ever written. Creating a shimmering
portrait of Belle-epoque Paris with a cast of exotic
characters-Napoleon III, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste Rodin,
Berthe Morisot, even an expatriate American dentist, Bloch
positions Mallarme as the spiritual giant of
late-nineteenth-century France. Featuring a new translation of the
poem by J.D. McClatchy, One Toss of the Dice reveals how a
masterpiece shaped our perceptual world.
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