One toss of the dice : the incredible story of how a poem made us modern / R. Howard Bloch ; transla...
One toss of the dice : the incredible story of how a poem made us modern / R. Howard Bloch ; transla...
One toss of the dice : the incredible story of how a poem made us modern / R. Howard Bloch ; translation of "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" by J.D. McClatchy.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Call Numbers
G 2017/2745
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MMS ID
Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
A poet is born -- The foundation of a magnificent work -- Enchanting a devastated world -- Tuesdays in the "little house of Socrates" -- "There has been an attack on verse!" -- "There, I've added a bit of shadow" -- The dice are tossed -- "It's the same for the man of science."
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Publisher
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition
First edition.
Date Published
[2017]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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. Stéphane Mallarmé's "One Toss of the Dice," a daring, twenty-page epic of ruin and recovery, provided an epochal "ti...
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Full title
One toss of the dice : the incredible story of how a poem made us modern / R. Howard Bloch ; translation of "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" by J.D. McClatchy.
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General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2017/2745
Record Identifier
74VKVaQJVJwy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQJVJwy
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ISBN
9780871406637
DDC
841.8
MMS ID
991024104314502626
