Bilingual in French and German throughout, Ein Würfelwurf features Mallarmé's PREFACE, as well as UN COUP DE DÉS printed over 24 pages, unpaginated and including 3 blank pages.

The book also features a glossary, a scholarly essay by the translator Marie Louise Erlenmeyer, excerpts from Mallarmé's publiushed writings and letters, and gathers excerpts from the reception history of the book by Paul Valery, André Gide, Stephan George, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gottfried Benn, Gerda Zeltner-Neukomm and Pierre Boulez.