One Toss of the Dice

The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

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R.Howard Bloch

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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. St?phane Mallarm?'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-?poque Paris with a cast of exotic characters—Napoleon III, the Lumiere brothers, Auguste Rodin, Berthe Morisot, even an expatriate American dentist, Bloch positions Mallarm? 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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

December 6th, 2016

Author

R.Howard Bloch

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

15 illustrations

Pages

320

Dimensions

170x244x30

ISBN-13

9780871406637

Product ID

24715074

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