Stéphane Mallarmé / le livre (The book)

Stéphane Mallarmé’s unfinished project Le Livre (“The Book”) was a radical vision of literature as an infinite, universal work. Conceived in the late 19th century, it was less a conventional book than a total artwork: endlessly reconfigurable, performative, and capable of encompassing all knowledge. Mallarmé imagined it as a sacred, almost ritual object, to be experienced collectively in staged readings. Though never realised, his meticulous notes reveal a system of permutations and mathematical structures governing its form. Le Livre profoundly influenced modernist and avant-garde ideas of the book as a conceptual medium, blurring boundaries between text, performance, and cosmos.

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