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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/r-howard-bloch/one_toss_of_the_dice.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/r-howard-bloch/one_toss_of_the_dice_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="One Toss of the Dice" alt ="One Toss of the Dice"/></a><br//>In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.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&#233;phane Mallarm&#233;'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, from Albert Einstein to T. S. Eliot.Celebrating its intrinsic influence on our culture, renowned scholar R. Howard Bloch masterfully decodes the poem still considered among the most enigmatic ever written. In Bloch's shimmering portrait of Belle &#201;poque Paris, Mallarm&#233; stands as the spiritual giant of the era, gathering around him every Tuesday a...]]></description>
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