Frequently quoted but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction The French poet St phane Mallarm (1842-98) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: perhaps his most famous pronouncement is "everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." A colossal influence on literature from Huysmans to Ashbery, art from...
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