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

by R. Howard Bloch

Book Overview

It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: 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. St phane Mallarm 's "One Toss of the Dice," a daring, twenty-page epic of ruin and recovery, provided an epochal "tipping point," defining the spirit of the age and anticipating radical thinkers of the twentieth century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871406632
• ISBN13: 9780871406637
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"