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Cubism (Hardcover)
Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert
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Cubism (Hardcover)
Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Eimert
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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.
Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
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
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.
When Guillaume Apollinaire was sent to the trenches during World
War I, he had already published his groundbreaking book of poems,
Alcools, inspiring artists of the budding Surrealist movement and
making a foundational mark on twentieth-century literature. The
letters he sent to his fiancee Madeleine Pages while fighting on
the front in Champagne offer an unprecedented look into the life
and mind of this literary great. Ranging from memories of his
childhood in Rome with his mother (a Polish noblewoman) to his
reflections on literary giants like Racine and Tolstoy, the letters
also chronicle his daily life as a soldier in the brutal Great War.
Letters to Madeleine is a moving portrait of a poet facing one of
humanity's starkest realities, and it will be of interest not only
to fans of Apollinaire but to those interested in personal accounts
of the First World War as well.
'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world' Guillaume
Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of
early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous
poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived, and his
experimentalism heralded a new artistic order. In the Paris of the
belle epoque, Apollinaire's prolific writing - poems, short
stories, erotic novels, art criticism - as well as his magnetic
personality brought him fame and even some notoriety. His two great
collections of poetry, Alcools and Calligrammes, made his
reputation, and they include love poems as well as the war poetry
for which he is best known. Apollinaire coined the word
'surrealism', and he led the literary and artistic avant-garde
right up to his death two days before the Armistice, weakened by
injuries received earlier in the War. This new selection by Martin
Sorrell covers the full range of Apollinaire's career, and includes
some of the poet's inventive pictorial calligrams. The introduction
and notes explore his seminal role in the culture of the twentieth
century. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Little Auto (Paperback)
Guillaume Apollinaire; Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic
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R279
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La femme assise
Guillaume Apollinaire
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R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
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Poèmes à Lou
Guillaume Apollinaire
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R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
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