This collection of stories and fables by Apollinaire will certainly
not be to everyone's taste, no more than a strikingly, dry
five-or-six year old sherry. The tone is musingly sardonic,
impious, poetic and resiliently exotic. A few of the stories are
Poe-esque, and over half are fantasies, rather witty fantasies. But
the best stories are the first five, which are heretical and
anticlerical and which tie Christian beliefs into bowknots of
absurdity. Apollinaire fancied himself as a leader of heretics at
the turn of the century in Paris. In one story about papal
infallibility, a disenchanted priest addresses the Pope with an
argument that, the Pope being a realist and also infallible, he
should dissolve the Catholic church on earth for the fraud that the
Pope knows it to be and thus bring peace to millions of Catholics.
In another story, a Jew lives a tremendously licentious and
criminal life, knowing that he intends to be baptized just before
dying and thus enter heaven purified. He does so and is
canonized.... The writing is generally excellent, though perhaps a
quarter of the stories are failures. (Kirkus Reviews)
A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, provincial
romantics, and adventurers in crime, The Heresiarch & Co. was
Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite.
"The best surrealist works strive to achieve the music of these
stories. Fluid, brief, they read like distilled fairy tales". --
VLS
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