CONTENTS

Introduction

I.

A Poet Is Born

II.

The Foundation of a Magnificent Work

III.

Enchanting a Devastated World

IV.

Tuesdays in the “Little House of Socrates”

V.

“There Has Been an Attack on Verse!”

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Mallarmé’s Original Preface to the 1897 Cosmopolis Edition of
“UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD”

“ONE TOSS OF THE DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE”

“UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD”

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VI.

“There, I’ve Added a Bit of Shadow”

VII.

The Dice Are Tossed

VIII.

“It’s the Same for the Man of Science”

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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