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Max Jacob - A Life in Art and Letters (Hardcover)
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Max Jacob - A Life in Art and Letters (Hardcover)
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Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early
twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max Jacob was Pablo
Picasso's initiator into French culture, Guillaume Apollinaire's
guide out of the haze of symbolism, and Jean Cocteau's loyal
friend. As Picasso reinvented painting, Jacob helped to reinvent
poetry with compressed, hard-edged prose poems and synapse-skipping
verse lyrics, the product of a complex amalgamation of Jewish,
Breton, Parisian, and Roman Catholic influences. In Max Jacob, the
poet's life plays out against the vivid backdrop of bohemian Paris
from the turn of the twentieth century through the divisions of
World War II. Acclaimed poet Rosanna Warren transports us to
Picasso's ramshackle studio in Montmartre, where Cubism was born;
introduces the artists gathered at a seedy bar on the left bank,
where Max would often hold court; and offers a front-row seat to
the artistic squabbles that shaped the Modernist movement. Jacob's
complex understanding of faith, art, and sexuality animates this
sweeping work. In 1909, he saw a vision of Christ in his shabby
room in Montmartre, and in 1915 he converted formally from Judaism
to Catholicism-with Picasso as his godfather. In his later years,
Jacob split his time between Paris and the monastery of
Benoit-sur-Loire. In February 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo
and sent to Drancy, where he would die a few days later. More than
thirty years in the making, this landmark biography offers a
compelling, tragic portrait of Jacob as a man and as an artist
alongside a rich study of his groundbreaking poetry-in Warren's own
stunning translations. Max Jacob is a nuanced, deeply researched,
and essential contribution to Modernist scholarship.
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