Guiilaume Apollinaire, a leading figure amongst the young writers and artists in France until his death in 1918, published 'Alcools', his first book of poems, in 1913. With its wide range of verse forms and contrasting registers of style, 'Alcools' had a considerable influence on Surrealist poetry. The poems provide a splendid example of the lyrical art in which the paradoxes of Apollinaire are held in high poetic tension. The editor's introduction and notes take place in the 20th Century and explain allusion and difficulties in the text.
Guiilaume Apollinaire, a leading figure amongst the young writers and artists in France until his death in 1918, published 'Alcools', his first book o...
When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. He had led migration of Bohemian Paris across the city from Montmartre to Montparnasse, he had helped formulate the principles of Cubism, having written one of the first books on the subject, and coined the word 'Surrealist'; and he had demonstrated in his own work those innovations we have come to associate with the most vital investigations of the avente - garde.
When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and...
Guillaume Apollinaire Donald Revell Wesleyan University Press
Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years: poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness. Here, too, is Apollinaire's last testament, "The Pretty Redhead," a farewell to the epoch that he--as poet, convict, art-critic, artilleryman and boulevardier--did so much to conjure and sustain until his death on Armistice Day in 1918. Readers of...
Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dism...
Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his calligrammes'. Subtle and complex, yet often direct, his poetry is still fresh and memorable. Guillaume Apollinaire was born in Rome in 1880. Educated in Monaco and Nice, he became a French citizen only in 1916, after service in the artillery and infantry. He was badly wounded in the head in 1916, and...
Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet ...
Since its publication in 1913, Alcools has acquired classic status as a major landmark not only in French poetry but in the wider contexts of modern European literature.An indispensable text for an serious study of modernism, it is richly rewarding in its own right: it draw on traditions of folk-song and literary Symbolism, mingles lyrics of disarming simplicity with poems which are so boldly experimental that they can still challenge the modern reader and it looks forward to the discoveries of Surrealism and much else in subsequent writing.Above all, however, it records...
Since its publication in 1913, Alcools has acquired classic status as a major landmark not only in French poetry but in the wider contexts o...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE L'Heresiarque & Cie TABLE DES MATIERES Le passant de Prague Le sacrilege Le juif latin L'heresiarque L'infaillibilite Trois histoires de chatiments divins I. Le giton II. La danseuse III. D'un monstre a Lyon ou L'Envie Simon Mage L'Otmika Que Vlo-ve? La rose de Hildesheim Les pelerins piemontais La disparition d'Honore Subrac Le matelot d'Amsterdam Histoire d'une famille vertueuse, d'une hotte et d'un calcul La serviette des poetes L'amphion faux-messie ou histoires et aventures du Baron d'Ormesan I. Le Guide II. Un beau film III. Le cigare romanesque IV. La lepre V....
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE L'Heresiarque & Cie TABLE DES MATIERES Le passant de Prague Le sacrilege Le juif latin L'heresiarque L'infaillibilite Trois hist...
Certaines critiques qualifient ce livre d'erotique et disent: Il fallait bien l'humour raffine d'un Apollinaire pour raconter cette histoire demesurement obscene tout au long de laquelle se succedent les scenes les plus enormes de pederastie, de saphisme, de vampirisme ou de scatomanie... D'autres, dont l'auteur de ces lignes, pensent que ce roman est l'incarnation de la pornographie et de la violence dans ce qu'elles ont de plus vil, de plus repugnant. Le sadisme regne en maitre et l'ecoeurement ne peut que gagner le lecteur, meme tres averti."
Certaines critiques qualifient ce livre d'erotique et disent: Il fallait bien l'humour raffine d'un Apollinaire pour raconter cette histoire demesurem...
