The Glorious Lie / The Glory of the Lie: A Card Game Inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé's The Book

Mallarmé's magnum opus rendered as an open-ended Tarot-esque card game

Upon his death, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) left hundreds of notes on an unrealized great work he called The Book. Housed in a clear Plexiglas box, this card-deck conception of his project draws from that material, and from other writings alluding to its possible forms, including a letter in which he describes "a book that is architectural.... The orphic explanation of the Earth, which is the sole duty of the poet, and th...