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Selected Writings (Paperback)
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Selected Writings (Paperback)
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Loot Price R432
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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 The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only
representative collection in English translation, begins with a
comprehensive critical Introduction by the translator, Roger
Shattuck. The next section is devoted to poetry. Included here are
almost half of Apollinaire's two best-known volumes, Alcools and
Calligrammes, as well as a selection from five other books, and the
long love poem La Chanson du Mal-Aime in its entirety. The prose
section leads off with "L'Esprit Nouveau et les Poetes", a seminal
discussion of modern poetry that anticipates such movements as Dada
and Futurism. This is followed by Apollinaire's almost unobtainable
"Introduction to Baudelaire and Oneirocriticism", an early
experimental work composed in a style prophetic of Surrealist
automatic writing. There are, in addition, two stories, a passage
from Anecdotiques, and a section from the novel Le Poete Assassine.
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