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A Great Lyric Poet
I have not read this entire volume, so my comments are of limited value, but the categorization of Apollinaire as a surrealist in the two other reviews is misleading. Apollinaire coined the term "surreal" in 1917 to describe "Parade," a ballet on which Satie, Diaghilev, Massine, Picasso, and Cocteau collaborated. Apollinaire died the next year, and surrealism did not take programmatic form until Andre Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. Apollinaire's association with cubism was more long-lasting and significant: he was one of Picasso's closest friends and among the most significant critical champions of cubism.

But enough talk of "isms": what matters is Apollinaire's lyric gift, which subverted traditional values with irony that still conveys the enthusiasm for the modern that accompanied the great scientific, technological, and cultural ferment that Europe experienced in the years before WWI.

You are weary of this ancient world at last...
It is unfortunate that we must at times label our giants with little tags and thus diminish their true presence. In the case of Apollinaire, the surrealist label is presumably warranted, as the man seemed content enough with the definition. But to emphasize the surreal too much in Apollinaire's poetry is to look for the Paris cafe crowd with bizarre hats, and miss out on the melancholy wisdom of the soldier. Processions, oh, processions... Century, oh, century of clouds... Finally lies frighten me no more... My years an oh my pretty girls... All this and much more rendered in verses that follow rhyme and rhythmic structures not much more adventurous than those of the Victorians themselves.

Apollinaire, master of Surrealism
Although I'm not sure it'll be of interest to anyone other than myself,Guillaume Apollinaire was the poet/lit.critic who first jump-started my interest in Surrealism and French writing. If you have any interest in the above, or in world poetry in general, Apollinaire's writing is indispensible. For not only did he play an influential role in founding several important artistic and literary movements of the twentieth century (surrealism, dadaism, automatic writing and cubism)he was a talented poet whose writing, though difficult at times, is highly lyrical and more than worth reading. ... Read more

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In Guillaume Apollinaire's The Eleven Thousand Rods (Les Onze Mille Verges), debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe.Published in 1907 after Apollinaire's researches at the Enfer section of the Bibliotheque Nationale in which he encountered the suppressed "pornographic" work of such authors as de Sade, Restif de la Bretonne and Andrea de Nerciat, The Eleven Thousand Rods is a startling modernist response to those "old masters" of erotica, purposefully expanding and detonating the extremes of obscenity as far as the human imagination will allow.This special Centenary edition is the only uncensored version currently in print, with a new translation by Alexis Lykiard.Guillaume Apollinaire is the avant-garde pioneer who coined the term "Surrealist", and remains one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.Solar Erotik Archive 1 : Solar Erotik Archive presents classic fiction by the precursors, members and affiliates of the Surrealist Group. ... Read more

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A fully annotated, bilingual edition, Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire--Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice--died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, he became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the work of the Surrealists. ... Read more

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a masterpiece
This work is nothing short of a masterpiece.

If you're just being introduced to poetry or Guillaume Apollinaire, this is a must-read. I can't even begin to describe the depth and meaning found in every word of this book.

The only complaint I have is that the translations were not always accurate, but with a book of this size, there are inevitably going to be small translation errors.

Read it! It will change your life. ... Read more

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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. Josephson was among the first to introduce these dadaists and surrealists to the U.S. via his archetypal small magazine, Broom, and among his most ambitious projects was this translation, published by Broom as a limited edition book in 1923 and never since reprinted. ... Read more

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Los cuentos fantásticos de Apollinaire
Además de la novela corta que da título al libro, la edición se acompaña de un conjunto de relatos en los que el autor demuestra su capacidad imaginativa y su dominio del lenguaje.La prosa de Guillaume Apollinairenunca ha sido tan reconocida como sus versos, pero debemos advertir que lostextos que integran "El Poeta Asesinado" han servido de hipotextopara obras maestras posteriores de la talla de Kafka. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Poet, critic, impresario, gadfly, visionary, tastemaker: more than anyone, Guillaume Apollinaire embodies the frenzied art world of Paris in the early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his remarkable acumen, make him still today the most evocative commentator on the intellectual ferment of the time. In 1905 he championed Picasso and in 1907 he promoted Braque in reviews that were amazingly sharp and prescient. He first identified the importance of Delaunay, Duchamp, and Rousseau, coined the word "Surrealism," and almost singlehandedly pushed Cubism into the mainstream. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck, this edition of "Apollinaire on Art" is the only collection in English of these seminal and ever fresh writings.

"This lively translation...presents as racy and piquant an account of the period as could possibly be desired." "The New York Times", "Apollinaire invented the art world in the minds of writers, where it persists as a myth so seductive that subsequent, real art worlds have been despised for not resembling it." Peter Schjeldahl

Edited by LeRoy C. Breunig. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck.
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An early and influential champion of cubism, the friend of Braque, Picasso, Dufy, Rousseau and Marie Laurencin (who became his mistress), Apollinaire was a seminal figure in the revolutionary art style known as "Surrealism," a term that he coined some seven years before Breton formally founded the movement.

In this charming book, published in 1910 and embellished with the graphically sophisticated and totally appropriate woodcuts of Dufy, we find the poet at his most accessible. His quatrains, printed in Dante italic and felicitously translated by Pepe Karmel, present a voice that ranges from the colloquial to the impassioned, a brisk combination of lyric imagery and bawdy humor (not surprising for a poet who, after a pious adolescence, supported himself by writing pornography). This is a small bijou of a livre de peintre, a lovely and lively ensemble of accessible poetry and striking woodcut art. ... Read more

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A Gem of a Book
This is as close as I've found to a perfect book of poems. Each idea is short, thoughtful, and often humorously absurd. The translator, Pepe Karmel, lays the French verse underneath the English on each page, which is useful for any bilingual readers.For those who only read English, Karmel's translations beautifully capture Apollinaire's succinctness and wit, and (when possible) his rhymes. One of my favorites:

The Dromedary

With his four dromedaries
Don Pedro D'Alfarubeyra
Traveled the world and marveled.
He did what I would do,
If I had four dromedaries.

The book also has gorgeous woodcut illustrations by Raoul Dufy. It's really a gem.

An inexpensive paperback of a wonderful volume.
As an art student I am unable to purchase ... books, I was delighted with my purchase of this paperback version of Apollinaire's Parade of Orpheus, I am also thrilled with the translation and quality of the reproduction of Dufy's woodcuts. ... Read more

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The Debauched Hospodar is the tale of Prince Vibescu, Romanian decadent, who travels 'round with Culculine and Alexine, indulging in many adventures, each more impossible than the last. ... Read more

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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. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical, and geographical information, Apollinaire’s stories rely neither on the dream, nor on juxtaposition, but nonetheless represent a technique that André Breton called a "formula" for Surrealism; its "music," he said, is "like gold pebbles rolled in a torrent." Apollinaire himself wrote about The Heresiarch & Co., "This is a book for those who love literature, powerful and disturbing, strange and logical… The author, amid so many fantastic, tragic, and sometimes sublime inventions, intoxicates himself with a charming erudition with which he also intoxicates his readers."

Text by Guillaume Apollinaire.

Translated by Rémy Inglis Hall.

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Apollinaire's account of a 15-year-old budding libertine's summer on the farm, where he congresses with maids, servants, passersby, an aunt and finally a sister, while outside the manor peasants go for creatures of the four-legged variety, is a classic unparalleled in its content, brevity and wit. ... Read more

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Fast Moving but ultimately empty
This is a story of a young man who has NEVER experienced physical intimacy with women and is now going to make up for "lost time".The action is rapid.The physical activity is well-described.

However, the women are -- essentially -- so shallow as to be "puppets".Every woman described "gives in" to our hero with only the faintest of protests.Even his sister who has a boy friend / fiance gets "moving right along".The closest that we see to a "build-up" and some level of protest is with the Aunt and even there, the objections are almost just pro-forma.I mean, is it really likely that a fairly religious woman would have NO objections to incest?I am willing to accept that the "lower classes" in the story are really amoral but even here, I would think that there would be SOME discrimination as to who a woman chooses to sleep with.If all the hero has to do is promise a trinket to get some wench to "put out" for him, then what sort of impression are we supposed to form?That these women have NO self-pride?I would have preferred to see some "build-up" where the hero has to overcome the "scruples" of the women over time before finally reaching his goal.

The endng is a bit contrived.After "knocking up" these women (including his sister!), he is able to very conveniently marry everyone off.... All's well that ends well but I am sure that this could have been more developed.

On the other hand, this may have been one of Apollinaire's first efforts.So, read it , enjoy it, but do not expect too much....

A sexual awakening story of young Roger ...
Young Roger is taken to the French countryside chateaux by his mother, aunt and sister for a Summer at the age of 15 and discovers that there is more to life than playing hide and go seek.

Starting with the fact Roger used to take baths with his sister till he was about 14 and she was 15 while the 27 virginal Aunt took special care to make sure they bathed and dried themselves properly, there was very little in the way of male company to teach our budding libertine that it's good to look but you're not supposed to touch .... Of course trhe encouragemnt he received from all the women around him made his life like a sensual and libidinous heaven on earth ....

This book is an old and established member of erotica and I have seen it published in it's entirety in some other multi erotica novels. Unfortunately that makes these small Wordworth Classic Erotica editions probably the most expensive books on the market..... So if ya got the bucks it is one of the best ... ... Read more

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First English/ French edition of a seminal work. ... Read more

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