This work by Marcel Broodthaers references Stéphane Mallarmé's famous 1897 poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" through its title, engaging with the literary text's exploration of chance and determinism. Broodthaers transforms the conceptual and typographic complexity of Mallarmé's poem into a visual artwork, characteristic of his practice of appropriating and recontextualizing existing cultural and literary materials. The work exemplifies Broodthaers' conceptual approach to art making, wherein the relationship between language, meaning, and artistic intention becomes central to the work's content.