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Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance
poem by Mallarmé
Also known as: “Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard, poème”
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discussed in biography
- In Stéphane Mallarmé
…ideal world, and in Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard, poème (“A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish the Hazard, Poem”), the work that appeared in 1897, the year before his death, he found consolation in the thought that he had met with some measure of success in…
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French literature
- In French literature: The Symbolists
…jamais n’abolira le hasard (1897; Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance), Mallarmé’s formal tour de force, co-opts typography to the presentation of proliferating meanings. The material world may be a desperate chaos of significations, ruled by chance, but human authorship can still be asserted within it, by creating constellations of…
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