4.13.2017

One Toss of the Dice



One Toss of the Dice
THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF HOW A POEM MADE US MODERN
R. Howard Bloch

W.W. Norton (A Liveright Book)
Hardcover, November 2016
ISBN 978-0-87140-663-7

Featuring a new, authoritative translation of the French poem by J. D. McClatchy, One Toss of the Dice reveals how a literary masterpiece launched the modernist movement, contributed to the rise of pop art, influenced modern Web design, and shaped the perceptual world we now inhabit. And as Alex Ross remarks in The New Yorker, "If you can crack [Mallarmé’s] poems, it seems, you can crack the riddles of existence." In One Toss of the Dice, Bloch finally, and brilliantly, dissects one of literary history’s greatest mysteries to reveal how a poem made us modern.

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