One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

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Beschreibung

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. Stéphane Mallarmé'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-époque Paris with a cast of exotic characters-Napoleon III, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste Rodin, Berthe Morisot, even an expatriate American dentist, Bloch positions Mallarmé as the spiritual giant of late-nineteenth-century France. Featuring a new translation of the poem by J.D. McClatchy, <em>One Toss of the Dice</em> reveals how a masterpiece shaped our perceptual world.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780871406637

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

241 x 164 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Verlag / Hersteller

Liveright Publishing Corporation