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Synopsis
It was the forerunner of our digital age, improbably a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backward and forward, even sideways, launched modernism. Stephane Mallarme's "One Toss of the Dice," a daring, twenty-page epic of ruin and recovery, has for over a century tantalized everyone from physicists to composers to graphic artists. Now, renowned scholar 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, Whistler, Rodin, Berthe Morisot, even an expatriate American dentist-that recalls Roger Shattuck's classic The Banquet Years, 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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R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and is the author of numerous award-winning books on French literature and art.
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