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Selected Writings
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Description for Selected Writings
Paperback. Translator(s): Shattuck, Roger. Num Pages: 284 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
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 the 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 avant-garde. This bilingual, illustrated edition of ... Read more
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 the 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 avant-garde. This bilingual, illustrated edition of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Publisher
New Directions
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811200035
SKU
KKD0007462
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Ref
99-1
About Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) worked as a bank employee in Paris, founded the review journal Le festin d’esope, and served as art critic for Le petit bleu. He served in the French army infantry beginning in 1914, until he was wounded in 1916. He passed away in 1918. Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Writings
"The leader of the Parisian avant-garde, the champion of cubism, simultaneism, futurism and every other -ism, the poet who embraced the new technologies and exploded poetic form and figure..."
Stephen Romer - The Guardian "The young and very ferocious are going to 'understand' Guillaume Apollinaire."
Ezra Pound
Stephen Romer - The Guardian "The young and very ferocious are going to 'understand' Guillaume Apollinaire."
Ezra Pound