One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern by R. Howard Bloch

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

R. Howard Bloch

320 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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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...

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