Apollianire – The Poet Assassinated
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“Apollinaire was Modernism’s first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. Lying in a hospital bed in 1915, recovering from combat wounds suffered in World War I, Apollinaire assembled the fragments of a tragicomic, mock-epic and occasionally obscene autobiography-a-clef: The Poet Assassinated. This novella recounts the life and death of Croniamantal, whose birth is -saluted- by the Eiffel Tower’s -beautiful erection, – who rises through the Parisian literary world to proclaim himself – the greatest of living poets, – and who is then torn to pieces by a mob. A statue built -out of nothing, like poetry and glory, – is constructed in his honor. This translation is by Matthew Josephson, an American editor who arrived in Paris just after the war and entered the circle of avant-garde artists and poets that had been galvanized by Apollinaire’s life and death.”
Grafton Books, 1985 Softcover edition. Discoloration to edges of pages
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