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

Bloch, R. Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871406632 ISBN 13: 9780871406637

Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016

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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. 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, One Toss of the Dice reveals how a masterpiece shaped our perceptual world.

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R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French and Humanities at Yale University. The author of numerous award-winning books on French literature and art, he lives in New York.

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• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0871406632
• ISBN 13: 9780871406637
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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