Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)

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1. Guillaume Apollinaire

   Author of Calligrammes, Bestiary: Or the Parade of Orpheus, The Poet Assassinated and Other Stories

2. André Breton

   Author of Nadja, Mad Love, What Is Surrealism?

3. Alfred Jarry

   Author of Ubu Roi, The Ubu Plays, Days and Nights: Novel of a Deserter

4. Charles Baudelaire

   Author of The Flowers of Evil, Paris Spleen, Les Paradis artificiels

5. Raymond Queneau

   Author of Exercises in Style, Zazie dans le métro, We Always Treat Women Too Well (New York Review Books Classics)

6. Pierre Louys

   Author of Aphrodite, The Songs of Bilitis, The She Devils (Creation Classics)

7. Louis Aragon

   Author of Paris Peasant, Libertine (Opera Library), Treatise on Style (French Modernist Library)

8. Stéphane Mallarmé

   Author of Poésies, Collected Poems, Selected Poetry and Prose

9. Raymond Roussel

   Author of Locus Solus, How I Wrote Certain Of My Books, Among the Blacks: Two Works

10. Georges Bataille

    Author of Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 14)

11. André Gide

    Author of The Vatican Cellars, La Symphonie Pastorale, Paludes

12. Denis Diderot

    Author of The Indiscreet Jewels, Oeuvres philosophiques, Oeuvres romanesques

13. Arthur Rimbaud

    Author of Complete Works, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat, Illuminations

14. Marquis de Sade

    Author of Justine; or, the Misfortunes of Virtue, Philosophy in the Budoir: Or, The Immortal Mentors, The Crimes of Love

15. Boris Vian

    Author of Froth on the Daydream, I Spit on Your Graves, L'automne à Pékin

16. Michel Leiris

    Author of Aurora, Nights As Day, Days As Night (Eridanos Library), The Automatic Muse: Surrealist Novels

17. Paul Valéry

    Author of Monsieur Teste, Poésies

18. Jean Giraudoux

    Author of Tiger at the Gates, Electre

19. Gustave Flaubert

    Author of Three Tales, Bouvard and Pécuchet, Flaubert : Oeuvres tome 2

20. Paul Eluard

    Author of Capital of pain / Love, poetry, Oeuvres Completes, Vol. 1: 1913-1945 (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade)