The book features Thierry Roger's a doctoral thesis, submitted at Paris-Sorbonne under the supervision of Betrand Marchal.

"We must break with an overly intuitive vision of the effect of Coup des dés in the 20th century and undertake the genealogy of a doxa which made this Mallarmean writing the prototype of the avant-garde poem. The text appeared in 1897 to indifference By what mediations was it transmitted to us? This book reconstructs the stages of a reception “in discourse which made an incredible poetic object more readable. But this posterity was also theoretical, philosophical and artistic through a reception "in action", properly creative: image, staging, concept or layout. This archive of Coup de dés then reveals the archeology of a certain modern tradition, captured through the manifestations of the polymorphic productivity of a literary work."

Thierry Roger